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Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions.
This title brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the self is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contributors; 1. Introduction: Persons, Passages, and Shifting Cultural Space; I. Alternative Economies of the Self; 2. A Body Made of Words and Poetic Meters; 3. On Becoming a Fish: Paradoxes of Immortality and Enlightenment in Chinese Literature; 4. Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana; 5. Madness and Divinization in Early Christian Monasticism; II. The Self Possessed; 6. Possessed Transsexuals in Antiquity: A Double Transformation; 7. Madness and Suffering in the Myths of Hercules; 8. Healing as an Act of Transformation.
- 9. Tirukkovaiyār: Downstream into God10. Spirit Possession as Self-Transformative Experience in Late Medieval Catholic Europe; III. Beyond the Self; 11. Religion and Biography in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus; 12. The Ins and Outs of Self-Transformation: Personal and Social Sides of Visionary Practice in Tibetan Buddhism; 13. The Self and Its Transformation in Sufīsm: With Special Reference to Early Literature; 14. From Platonic to Hasidic Eros: Transformations of an Idle Man's Story; 15. Postlude: The Interior Sociality of Self-transformation; Index.