Giovanni Tarantino, University of Florence, is the Chair of the COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492–1923)’ and co-editor of the journals Cromohs and Emotions: History, Culture, Society.Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, researcher and guest curator at the Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich, is author of Religionsbilder der frühen Aufklärung: Bernard Picarts Bildtafeln für die ‘Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde’ (2006).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The “Religious Other” through Early Modern EyesGiovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa1 Confessionalisation in Jewish Culture? Creedal Moments from the Middle Ages through the Late Eighteenth CenturyTalya Fishman2 Silencing the Other: Eknath’s Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād and Thomas Stephens’ Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu ChristoAnanya Chakravarti3 Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of a Morisco: The European Translations of Miguel de Luna’s Historia verdadera del Rey d. RodrigoFernando Rodríguez Mediano4 Through the Eyes of Idolatry: Pignoria’s 1615 Argument on the Conformità of Idols from the West and East Indies with Egyptian GodsPaola von Wyss-Giacosa5 The Religious Other as Perceived by the Chinese and by Early Western MissionariesPaul A. Rule6 Radical Attitudes towards the Religions of Siam in Early Eighteenth-Century French ThoughtRolando Minuti7 What Is Left of Religion after Christianity Unveiled? D’Holbach’s PerspectivesKnut Martin Stünkel8 Through African Eyes: Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic Authors Confront ChristianityVincent Carretta9 From Labelling and Ridicule to Understanding: The Novelty of Bernard and Picart’s Religious ComparatismGiovanni TarantinoAfterword: Cannibalism and HistoryDaniel BarbuIndex