Knowledge and Profanation: Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship

by Martin Mulsow

Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions - occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004398929
• ISBN13: 9789004398924
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"