"This volume, the eighteenth in the series Issues & Debates, evolved from "At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart's Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment," a conference cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the Getty Research Institute, and the Netherlands Consulate- General of Los Angeles and held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and the Clark Library, Los Angeles, 6-8 December 2007."