Self and self-transformation in the history of religions:
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002
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Introduction: Persons, passages, and shifting cultural space / David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa -- A body made of words and poetic meters / Charles Malamoud -- On becoming a fish: paradoxes of immortality and enlightenment in Chinese literature / Wai-yee Li -- Transformations of subjectivity and memory in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa / Wendy Doniger -- Madness and divinization in early Christian monasticism / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Possessed transsexuals in antiquity: a double transformation / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Madness and suffering in the myths of Hercules / Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Healing as an act of transformation / Shaul Shaked -- Tirukkovaiyār: downstream into God / David Shulman -- Spirit possession as self-transformative experience in late medieval Catholic Europe / Moshe Sluhovsky -- Religion and biography in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus / Margalit Finkelberg -- The ins and outs of self-transformation: personal and social sides of visionary practice in Tibetan Buddhism / Janet Gyatso -- The self and its transformation in Ṣūfīsm: with special reference to early literature / Sara Sviri -- From Platonic to Hasidic Eros: transformations of an idle man's story / Moshe Idel -- Postlude: the interior sociality of self-transformation / Don Handelman
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 to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intutitions, drives, and conflicts active within culture. The individual essays - by scholars such as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel - study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and mediaeval and early-modern Christian Europe
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 268 p.)
ISBN:1280531606
1423726960
1423738713
9781280531606
9781423726968
9781423738718

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