Title:

Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times: also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole

Short title

Pansebeia

Title variations

Title in English

Section

Sixth section

Language

English

Creation date

1653

Genre

Treatise

Content

Other

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Prose

Qur'an quotations

No

Original

Source

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Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/AV8TFA2Z

Descriptive card

Alexander Ross’s "Pansebeia, or a View of the religions of the world" was first published in 1653. Ross's enterprise represented the first attempt to describe religious diversity from an exhaustive point of view. The book was a successful publication. By the end of the century, the text had appeared in eight editions and reprints (1655, 1658, 1673, 1675, 1683, 1696) and had been translated into Dutch (1662), French (1666) and German (1668). The section of Islam (sixth section, "religions) is only 16-pages long. The "Alcoran" is briefly addresses at the beginning of this section. It described conventionally as "hodge-podge of fooleries and impieties. To write his book and, in particular, the section on islam, Ross drew extensively on Samuel Purchas's book.

Entry author

Emmanuelle Stefanidis