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Sacred Pain : Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul.
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet?. In this insightful new book, Ariel Glu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Religious Ways of Hurting; TWO: Pain and Transcendence: The Neurological Grounds; THREE: The Psychology and Communication of Pain; FOUR: Self and Sacrifice: A Psychology of Sacred Pain; FIVE: Ghost Trauma: Changing Identity through Pain; SIX: The Emotions of Passage; SEVEN: The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt; EIGHT: Anesthetics and the End of "Good Pain"; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.