Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3968357
AutoresStephanie W Jamison (0009-0000-9176-4783), David Shulman (0000-0003-4731-6806), Guy G Stroumsa (0000-0002-3889-931X)
Año2003
Volumen123
Número3
Páginas709
Fecha de publicación2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3217796
OpenAlexW2029144032
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

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

Ancient history · Biology · Transformation (genetics) · Genetics · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Religion and Society Interactions