Self and self-transformation in the history of religions /
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Oxford ; New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa / 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
- Tirukkovaiyār: 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 Ṣūfīsm: 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.