Fetishizing Tradition
Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist and Christian Narratives
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2015
298 pages
978-1-4384-5746-8 (ISBN)
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Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.
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Alan Cole is an independent scholar and the author of Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism; Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature; and Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fetishes and the Spirit of Religious Studies
1. Methodology and a World of Commentary
2. Paul's Letters, or How God Became a Jewish Priest
3. The Gospel of Mark, or Narrative as Floating Patriarchy
4. The Sutra on the Land of Bliss, or That Place between Tongues and Texts
5. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, or Paternal Truth for the Masses
Conclusions: The Limits of Fetishizing Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fetishes and the Spirit of Religious Studies
1. Methodology and a World of Commentary
2. Paul's Letters, or How God Became a Jewish Priest
3. The Gospel of Mark, or Narrative as Floating Patriarchy
4. The Sutra on the Land of Bliss, or That Place between Tongues and Texts
5. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, or Paternal Truth for the Masses
Conclusions: The Limits of Fetishizing Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
