LEADER 03392nam 22007092 450 001 9910973353103321 005 20251116150747.0 010 $a0-19-774112-6 010 $a1-280-53160-6 010 $a0-19-534933-4 010 $a1-4237-3871-3 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195144505.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000029029 035 $a(EBL)281065 035 $a(OCoLC)191924384 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243689 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243689 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160035 035 $a(PQKB)10869939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281065 035 $a(OCoLC)1406782547 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197741122 035 $a(OCoLC)45505993 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB165382 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000029029 100 $a20010730e20232002 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSelf and self-transformation in the history of religions /$fedited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2002. 311 08$a0-19-514450-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 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 8 $aThis text brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilisations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aSelf$xReligious aspects 606 $aReligions$xHistory 606 $aReligion$2ukslc 615 0$aSelf$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aReligions$xHistory. 615 7$aReligion. 676 $a291.2/2 702 $aShulman$b David Dean$f1949- 702 $aStroumsa$b Guy G. 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973353103321 996 $aSelf and self-transformation in the history of religions$94527353 997 $aUNINA