Attitudes to other religions: comparative religion in 17th and 18th-century Britain
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1984
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| Physical Description: | IX, 339 S. |
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| adam_text | ATTITUDESTO
OTHER RELIGIONS
Comparative religion
in seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century
Britain
DAVID A PAILIN
Manchester University Press
Contents
Preface page viii
I Introduction 1
II Background 8
III The question of natural religion 23
IV Pride and prejudice in the study of actual religions 45
V The treatment of Judaism 63
VI The treatment of Islam 81
VII The uses of other religions for instruction 105
VIII The uses of other religions in controversy 121
IX Missionary activity and other religions 137
READINGS
Extracts from texts illustrating attitudes to other religions
in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries
I General views on religion 153
(i) A survey of the world s religions -
Richard Baxter 153
(ii) The origin of religion and rational belief-
William Robertson 157
II The question of natural religion 162
(i) Universal religion - Herbert of Cherbury 162
(ii) Natural religious understanding lost by the fall of
Adam - Robert South 170
(iii) The limits of natural religion - Samuel Clarke 174
(iv) The darkness of the light of nature revealed by pagan
religions - Philip Skelion 111
vi Contents
III The Jews 181
(i) The imperfection of the Jewish religion -
Isaac Barrow 181
(ii) The trials of a convert and the dangers of using reason
in religion - Pierre Bayle 186
(iii) Why Jews object to becoming Christians -
Charles Leslie 189
(iv) Jewish customs and beliefs today - Bernard Picart 193
IV Islam 198
(i) Seven reasons why Islam is false - Henry Smith 198
(ii) The circumstances of Islam s rise show it not to be
from God — Isaac Barrow 201
(iii) Mahomet s revelations and the production of the
Koran - Humphrey Prideaux 204
(iv) Conversion to Islam -Joseph Pitts 209
(v) What Muslims believe and what they do not believe -
Adrian Reland 212
(vi) Cultural relativity and the reasonableness of Islam -
Henri, Comte de Boulainvilliers 217
V Religions of Africa, America and the East 223
(i) Brief views of religions in Africa and America -
Alexander Ross 223
(ii) Siamese religious beliefs and the story of
Sommonocodom - Charles Leslie 228
(iii) Ritual sacrifices and priesthood in Mexico -
Bernard Picart 232
(iv) The idolatries of China, India, Japan, Siam and
Tibet - Thomas Stackhouse 236
(v) Zoroaster - Thomas Stackhouse * 240
(vi) Confucius compared with Christ -Joshua Toulmin 244
(vii) Indian insights into philosophy and morality -
Sir William Jones 247
VI Discovery and instruction 253
(i) Wisdom from the East - the Earl of Chesterfield 253
(ii) Local light on Solomon s Song - Thomas Harmer 257
(iii) A visit to a Sikh community - Sir Charles Wilkins 261
VII Controversy 266
(i) The corruption of religion by priestcraft -
Herbert of Cherbury 266
Contents vii
(ii) Socinianism and Islam compared 269
(iii) Paganism lives on in Rome - Conyers Middleton 273
VIII Missionary activity 278
(i) The civilising benefits of Christianity - East Apthorp 278
(ii) The need for Christian missionaries — George Burder 281
(iii) Landing missionaries -James Wilson 284
Notes 289
Index 331
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