03392nam 22007092 450 991097335310332120251116150747.00-19-774112-61-280-53160-60-19-534933-41-4237-3871-310.1093/oso/9780195144505.001.0001(CKB)1000000000029029(EBL)281065(OCoLC)191924384(SSID)ssj0000243689(PQKBManifestationID)11188249(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243689(PQKBWorkID)10160035(PQKB)10869939(MiAaPQ)EBC281065(OCoLC)1406782547(StDuBDS)9780197741122(OCoLC)45505993(FINmELB)ELB165382(EXLCZ)99100000000002902920010730e20232002 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSelf and self-transformation in the history of religions /edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (281 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2002.0-19-514450-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 text brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilisations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation.Oxford scholarship online.SelfReligious aspectsReligionsHistoryReligionukslcSelfReligious aspects.ReligionsHistory.Religion.291.2/2Shulman David Dean1949-Stroumsa Guy G.StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910973353103321Self and self-transformation in the history of religions4527353UNINA