Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Wijnand Mijnhardt is Chair of Comparative History of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University.

A brilliant and important work about one of the most fascinating books in European history by three of the leading scholars in the world on the Enlightenment.

• * Illustrations * Introduction: One Book, Two Men, and a New Attitude toward Religion Part I: The World of the Book * A Marketplace for Religious Ideas * Bernard Picart: Religious and Artistic Journeys * Why Holland? * Jean Frederic Bernard: The Tumultuous Life of a Refugee Publisher * A Writer's Mental Universe * Picart's Visual Politics Part II: The Book of the World * Familiarizing Judaism * Cutting Roman Catholicism Down to Size * Idolatry: West and East * Rehabilitating Islam * Dissent, Deism, and Atheism * Conclusion: Literary Fortunes * Appendix A: The Seven Volumes of Religious Ceremonies of the World * Appendix B: Editions of Religious Ceremonies of the World * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Wijnand Mijnhardt is Chair of Comparative History of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University.

A brilliant and important work about one of the most fascinating books in European history by three of the leading scholars in the world on the Enlightenment.

• * Illustrations * Introduction: One Book, Two Men, and a New Attitude toward Religion Part I: The World of the Book * A Marketplace for Religious Ideas * Bernard Picart: Religious and Artistic Journeys * Why Holland? * Jean Frederic Bernard: The Tumultuous Life of a Refugee Publisher * A Writer's Mental Universe * Picart's Visual Politics Part II: The Book of the World * Familiarizing Judaism * Cutting Roman Catholicism Down to Size * Idolatry: West and East * Rehabilitating Islam * Dissent, Deism, and Atheism * Conclusion: Literary Fortunes * Appendix A: The Seven Volumes of Religious Ceremonies of the World * Appendix B: Editions of Religious Ceremonies of the World * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index