The Importance of Non-Christian Religions in the Philosophy of Pierre Bayle

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Marta García-Alonso is a historian of political ideas and has dedicated her research to religious reformers and French-speaking philosophers of the 16th and 17th centuries. She has written papers for History of European Ideas Intellectual History Review History of Political Thought and coordinated works for Honoré Champion (Les Lumières radicales et la politique 2017). Among her latest writings are 'La hermenéutica bíblica hobbesiana del Leviatán' Estudios Eclesiásticos 98 (2023) pp. 305-337; 'La Boétie Étienne de' in Sellers M. Kirste S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Springer Dordrecht 2022; 'Persian Theology and the Checkmate of Christian Theology: Bayle and the Problem of Evil' in Visions of Persia in the Age of Enlightenment W. Mannies J.C. Laursen C. Masroory (eds.) Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Liverpool University Press (2021) pp. 75-100; 'Calvin's Political Theology in Context' Intellectual History Review 31 (2021) pp. 541-56. John Christian Laursen is Professor of the Graduate Division in the Department of Political Science at the University of California Riverside. He has been writing on Bayle off and on since 1998 and his respect for Bayle has only grown over the years. His most recent edited books are _Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe 1680-1823_ co-edited with Gianni Paganini and Margaret Jacob (University of Toronto Press 2020) and _Persia in the Enlightenment_ Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment co-edited with Cyrus Masroori and Whitney Mannies (Liverpool University Press 2021).