Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450317303321
• Autore: Shulman David Dean <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1-280-53160-6; 0-19-534933-4; 1-4237-3871-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.9; 291.22
• Soggetti: Religions; Religions - History; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Religion - General; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilisations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. Contributors study examples in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.