Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions

Name: Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions
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ISBN: 9780195144505

ISBN-10: 0195144503

ISBN-13: 9780195144505

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa

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This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays--by such distinguished scholars as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger,…

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List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/18/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.924

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Visiting Distinguished Professor of South Asian Studies at Emory University.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions



Persons, Passages, and Shifting Cultural Space


Notes


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Alternative Economies of the Self



A Body Made of Words and Poetic Meters


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Paradoxes of Immortality and Enlightenment in Chinese Literature


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Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in the Mah&amacr;bh&amacr;rata and the R&amacr;m&amacr;ya&nbdot;a


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Madness and Divinization in Early Christian Monasticism


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The Self Possessed



A Double Transformation


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Madness and Suffering in the Myths of Hercules


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Healing as an Act of Transformation


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Downstream into God


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Spirit Possession as Selfï¿½ Transformative Experience in Late Medieval Catholic Europe


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Religion and Biography in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus



Beyond the Self



Personal and Social Sides of Visionary Practice in Tibetan Buddhism


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With Special Reference to Early Literature


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Transformations of an Idle Man's Story


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The Interior Sociality of Self-Transformation


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Index