Book Explores Birth of Religious Tolerance

Tablet magazine today features a review of "The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's 'Religious Ceremonies of the World'" and "Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion," two new books co-authored by Lynn Hunt, UCLA's Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, and Margaret Jacob, UCLA professor of history, that explore the history of a seminal 18th-century work on the world's religions and the effect it had on religious tolerance.

 

Published: Thursday, July 01, 2010