Hui, Xianzhe , WENNING, MARIO

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85210093698&doi=10.1111%2fphc3.70014&partnerID=40&md5=e4d156d58523fbca8d22fceff27caf1d

01/11/2024

001369920300001

2-s2.0-85210093698

10.1111/phc3.70014

This article reconstructs the influence of Jesuit missionary writings focusing on China on the emergence of a distinctive conception of toleration. The article highlights the often neglected contributions of Pierre Bayle. After a brief reconstruction of key elements of the Sino-European encounter, such as the Kangxi Emperor's edict of toleration, the paper describes how Bayle's interpretation of the China Mission contributed to a critique of religious persecution in France and enabled him to develop a defense of a rationalist approach to toleration. The article demonstrates that Bayle's knowledge of China and his methodology of intercultural changes in perspective contributed to the development of an original conception of reciprocal toleration.

Bayle; China; Jesuit mission; religious toleration; the Enlightenment

• MARIO WENNING