03410nam 22006733u 450 991078326450332120230607215453.00-19-774112-61-280-53160-60-19-534933-41-4237-3871-3(CKB)1000000000029029(EBL)281065(OCoLC)191924384(SSID)ssj0000243689(PQKBManifestationID)11188249(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243689(PQKBWorkID)10160035(PQKB)10869939(MiAaPQ)EBC281065(EXLCZ)99100000000002902920140113d2002|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrSelf and Self-transformation in the History of Religions[electronic resource]New York Oxford University Press20021 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514450-3 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 Transformation9. 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; NOP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; ZThis 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.ReligionsReligions - HistoryReligionsHistoryReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCReligion - GeneralHILCCReligions.Religions - History.ReligionsHistoryReligionPhilosophy & ReligionReligion - General200.9291.22Shulman David Dean1949-919288Stroumsa Guy GAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910783264503321Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions3855438UNINA