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In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider's point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole's Britain, for example, "the argument from the Chinese"—namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith—was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Feeling exclusion, generating exclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART 1: Belonging and displacement -- 1. Emotion, exclusion, exile: The Huguenot experience during the French religious wars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Cross-channel affections: Pressure and persuasion in letters to Calvinist refugees in England, 1569-1570 -- Materialising family and faith communities -- Feelings in circulation -- The experience of exclusion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. A tearful diaspora: Preaching religious emotions in the Huguenot Refuge -- The emotions of the exiles -- Penitential tears and shame -- Emotional preaching styles -- Audience responses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Between hope and despair: Epistolary evidence of the emotional effects of persecution and exile during the Thirty Years War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART 2: Coping with persecution and exile -- 5. The embodiment of exile: Relics and suffering in early modern English cloisters -- English nuns, exile, and relics -- Relics and the communal fabric of exiled convents -- Relics, exile, and the performance of martyrdom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Fear and loathing in the Radical Reformation: David Joris as the prophet of emotional tranquillity, 1525-1556 -- Emotions in the Reformation -- Dutch Anabaptists and David Joris -- David Joris as the prophet of emotional tranquillity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. 'I am contented to die': The letters from prison of the Waldensian Sebastian Bazan (d. 1623) and the Anti-Jacobite narratives of the Reformed martyrs of Piedmont -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others". Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion.

"The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imaginations is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes of selfing/othering are observed through the lenses of creedal Jews, a bhakti Brahmin, a widely translated Morisco historian, a collector of Western and Eastern singularia, Christian missionaries in Asia, critical converts, toleration theorists, and freethinkers: in other words, people dwelling in an 'in-between' space which undermines any binary conception of the Self and the Other. The genesis of the volume was in exchanges between eight international scholars and the two editors, intellectual historian Giovanni Tarantino and anthropologist Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, who share an interest in comparatism, debates over toleration, and history of emotions"--