Self and Self-Transformation in the History of ReligionsDavid Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 M03 18 - 288 páginas 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. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe. |
Contenido
A Body Made of Words and Poetic Meters | 19 |
Paradoxes of Immortality and Enlightenment | 29 |
Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in the Mahābhārata | 57 |
Madness and Divinization in Early Christian Monasticism | 73 |
A Double Transformation | 91 |
7 | 97 |
Madness and Suffering in the Myths of Hercules | 106 |
Healing as an Act of Transformation | 121 |
Downstream into God | 131 |
Spirit Possession as SelfTransformative Experience in Late Medieval | 150 |
Religion and Biography in Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus | 173 |
Personal and Social Sides | 183 |
With Special Reference | 195 |
Transformations of an Idle Mans Story | 216 |
The Interior Sociality of Selftransformation | 236 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abū al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī Ambā ancient Apuleius ascetic ātman beauty become behavior Bhīṣma body Buddhist Budha century Christian Chuci cultural Daoist death deity demonic possession Distant Roaming divine dream ecstatic enlightenment evil example exterior female fish fool Ge Hong gender Gnostic goddess gods Greek Hasidism healing heart Herakles Hercules holy human identity immortality Inner Space interaction interior sociality Isaac of Acre Islam Kabbalah Kabbalist kills king Kitāb Laozi literature live madness maenads magical Mahābhārata male master means Medea Menghi myths nafs nature Oedipus paradoxical Pārvatī perhaps person philosophical poems poet Prajāpati princess prophetic realm religion religious ritual s/he sacrifice saint salos says self-transformation selfness Seneca sexual Shekhinah Shulman silpa Sima Xiangru Śiva Sophocles soul spirit stage story Stroumsa Sufi Symeon Tamil Tibetan tion tradition tragedy trans transcendence transformation translation Vedic verses visions woman women words Xue Wei Zhuangzi