Sacred Pain Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul

Name: Sacred Pain Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
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ISBN: 9780195169430

ISBN-10: 0195169433

ISBN-13: 9780195169430

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Authors: Ariel Glucklich

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Physical pain ranks as one of the great evils of human life, not far behind death. Yet, religious individuals and groups around the world and throughout history have inflicted pain on themselves and on others in pursuit of religious goals. Despite this, no broad explanation for the uses of pain has emerged, and this book seeks to remedy this lack. Glucklich shows that a ritually controlled regimen of pain can produce a transformation of consciousness in which personal identity gives way to identification with God, Truth, or other spiritual ideals. This phenomenon is explored in many cultural and historical contexts, including rituals of possession and exorcism, rites of passage, and the…

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List price: $66.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.71" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Religious Ways of Hurting



Pain and Transcendence: The Neurological Grounds



The Psychology and Communication of Pain



Self and Sacrifice: A Psychology of Sacred Pain



Ghost Trauma: Changing Identity through Pain



The Emotions of Passage



The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt



Anesthetics and the End of "Good Pain"


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index