Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions

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  • Author : David Dean Shulman
  • Release Date : 2002
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : Electronic books
  • Pages : 281
  • ISBN 13 : 0195148169
  • File Size : 32,32 MB
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Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions by David Dean Shulman PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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