Editorial Statement:
Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas has served as a medium for the publication of research in intellectual history that is of common interest to scholars and students in a wide range of fields. It is committed to encouraging diversity in regional coverage, chronological range, and methodological approaches. The JHI defines intellectual history expansively and ecumenically, including the histories of philosophy, of literature and the arts, of the natural and social sciences, of religion, and of political thought. It also encourages scholarship at the intersections of cultural and intellectual history, for example the history of the book and of visual culture.
Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume 67, Number 4 (October 2006)
CONTENTS
Introduction: Thinking about Idols in Early Modern Europe JONATHAN SHEEHAN 561
Theology, Ethnography, and the Historicization of Idolatry JOAN-PAU RUBIÉS 571
Idolatrous Cultures and the Practice of Religion CARINA L. JOHNSON 597
Gods, Demons, and Idols in the Andes SABINE MACCORMACK 623
The Altars of the Idols: Religion, Sacrifice, and the Early Modern Polity JONATHAN SHEEHAN 649
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc’s Africa PETER N. MILLER 675
Idolatry and Science: Against Nature Worship from Boyle to Rüdiger, 1680-1720 MARTIN MULSOW 697
India and the Identity of Europe: The Case of Friedrich Schlegel CHEN TZOREF-ASHKENAZI 713
Books Received 735
Notices 743
Contents of Volume 67 745
Index to Volume 67 747