A global enlightenment : Western progress and Chinese science /  Alexander Statman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The death of Voltaire's Confucius -- The ex-Jesuit mission in China -- The origins of esotericism -- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism -- The invention of Eastern wisdom.

"A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary, a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West - and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe, and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought, Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from the eighteenth century to today"-- Provided by publisher.

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Continental Catholic Europe / Nigel Aston -- Continental Protestant Europe / Hartmut Lehmann -- Great Britain and Ireland / J.C.D. Clark -- The church in economy and society / Philip T. Hoffman -- Catholic clergy in Europe / Mario Rosa -- Protestant clergies in the European world / Andrew R. Holmes -- Reaching audiences : sermons and oratory in Europe / Joris van Eijnatten -- Christian education / Dominique Julia -- Christianity and gender / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- Popular religion / Willem Frijhoff -- Jewish-Christian relations / Frances Malino -- Architecture and Christianity / Jean-Michel Leniaud

Christianity and the rise of science, 1660-1815 / Louis Châtellier -- Enlightenment critique of Christianity / Margaret C. Jacob -- Christian Enlightenment / Helena Rosenblatt -- Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits / Dale K. van Kley -- Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world / W.R. Ward -- Toleration and movements of Christian reunion, 1660-1789 / James E. Bradley -- Christianity in Iberian America / James D. Riley -- British and French North America to 1765 / Mark A. Noll -- Christianity in Africa / Lamin Sanneh -- Christianity in south and south-east Asia / Charles J. Borges -- Christianity in East Asia / R.G. Tiedemann -- Christian encounters with other world religions / Andrew C. Ross -- The American Revolution and religion, 1765-1815 / Martin E. Marty -- Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade / Christopher Leslie Brown -- The French Revolution and religion to 1794 / Timothy Tackett -- The French Revolution and religion, 1795-1815 / Suzanne Desan -- Movements of Christian awakening in revolutionary Europe, 1790-1815 / Stewart J. Brown.