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UNINA9910973353103321 |
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Titolo |
Self and self-transformation in the history of religions / / edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-774112-6 |
1-280-53160-6 |
0-19-534933-4 |
1-4237-3871-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Self - Religious aspects |
Religions - History |
Religion |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2002. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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