Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Shulman David Dean <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200.9 |
| 291.22 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Religions |
| Religions - History | |
| Religion | |
| Philosophy & Religion | |
| Religion - General | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | StroumsaGuy G |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53160-6 |
| 0-19-534933-4 | |
| 1-4237-3871-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450317303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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