Self and self-transformation in the history of religions
[Electronic Resource]
/ edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa
Oxford ;New York
: Oxford University Press,
, 2002.
xii, 268 p.
: ; 24 cm.
e
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Persons, passages, and shifting cultural space / David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa -- A body made of words and poetic meters / Charles Malamoud -- On becoming a fish: paradoxes of immortality and enlightenment in Chinese literature / Wai-yee Li -- Transformations of subjectivity and memory in the Mah??bh??rata and the R??m??ya?�?a / Wendy Doniger -- Madness and divinization in early Christian monasticism / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Possessed transsexuals in antiquity: a double transformation / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Madness and suffering in the myths of Hercules / Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Healing as an act of transformation / Shaul Shaked -- Tirukkovaiy??r: downstream into God / David Shulman -- Spirit possession as self-transformative experience in late medieval Catholic Europe / Moshe Sluhovsky -- Religion and biography in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus / Margalit Finkelberg -- The ins and outs of self-transformation: personal and social sides of visionary practice in Tibetan Buddhism / Janet Gyatso -- The self and its transformation in ?�o?�f?�sm: with special reference to early literature / Sara Sviri -- From Platonic to Hasidic Eros: transformations of an idle man's story / Moshe Idel -- Postlude: the interior sociality of self-transformation / Don Handelman.