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200 10$aSelf and Self-transformation in the History of Religions$b[electronic resource]
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2002
215   $a1 online resource (281 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $aContents; 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 Maha?bha?rata and the Ra?ma?yana; 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
327   $a9. Tirukkovaiya?r: 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 Sufi?sm: 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
327   $aOP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
330   $aThis 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.
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700   $aShulman$b David Dean$f1949-$0919288
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