Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions - Couverture souple

Shulman;Guy S. Stroumsa, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195148169 ISBN 13 : 9780195148169

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 2002

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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, 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 medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies ; Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195148169
• ISBN 13: 9780195148169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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