Rahul Bjørn Parson

Biographic Data

ID8614205
NAMERahul Bjørn Parson
GIVEN NAMESRahul Bjørn
FAMILY NAMEParson
SIGNATUREPARSON R B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado Boulder
ORCID0000-0001-7968-1440
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Auto-Allegory

    Open AccessRahul Bjørn ParsonARTICLEa/b Auto/Biography Studies2026

    The Ardhakathānaka by Jain merchant Banārasīdās (1586–1643) is possibly the earliest autobiography in an Indian language. Completed in 1641, the unprecedented innovation in life writing contains confessions, religious epiphanies, and hilarious misadventures, while also serving as an ontological allegory of the soul passing through consecutive spiritual stations toward nirvana.

  • Religiöse Individualisierung – und De-Individualisierung

    Open AccessMartín Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach et al.CHAPTERReligiöse Individualisierung in…2020

  • Religious individualisation historical dimensions and comparative perspectives

    Martín Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach et al.BOOKReligious Individualisation2020

    This volume brings together key findings of the research project 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective' at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past

  • Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās’ Samayasāra Nāṭaka

    Open AccessRahul Bjørn ParsonCHAPTERReligious Individualisation2019

  • Introduction

    Open AccessBernd-Christian Otto, Bernd‐christian Otto et al.CHAPTERReligious Individualisation2019

  • Afterword

    Open AccessIshita Banerjee-Dube, Ishita Banerjee‐dube et al.CHAPTERReligious Individualisation2019

    The 'texts' portion of this part of the publication has explored narratives of religious individualisation that have set in motion discourses which, to varying degrees, empower and promote religious individualisation. The authors of these narratives are, in a sense, the founders of discursivity, from whom currents of thought seem to flow which have informed modes of religious individualisation. It is, however, often the 'modes of circulation, val…

  • Untold Tales of the Self

    Open AccessRahul Bjørn ParsonARTICLEJournal of Dharma Studies2019

  • General introduction

    Open AccessMartín Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach et al.CHAPTERReligious Individualisation2019

    The work of the research group 'Religious individualisation in historical perspective', which began in 2008 at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Study at the University of Erfurt (Germany), has finally come to an end. The research group (or 'Kollegforschergruppe' in German) was generously funded by the German Science Foundation ('Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', DFG) and was intellectually embedded in the vibrant and rigorous…

  • Religious Individualisation

    Open AccessRahul Bjø Parson, Martín Fuchs et al.EDITORBOOKReligious Individualisation2019

    This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical period…