Self and self-transformation in the history of religions

This title 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...

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Contributors: Shulman, Daṿid 1949- (Editor) ; Sṭrumzah, Gedalyahu Gʹ. 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002
In:Year: 2002
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / Self-responsibility / History
B Self / Religion / History
Further subjects:B Electronic books History
B Philosophy & Religion
B Religions History
B Religion
B Conference program 1998 (Ginnosar)
B Electronic books
B RELIGION ; Comparative Religion
B History
B Religions Histoire
B Religions
B Religion - General
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Summary:This title 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 intutitions, drives, and conflicts active within culture. The individual essays - by scholars such as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel - study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and mediaeval and early-modern Christian Europe
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:0195144503