The Biographical Process
Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2014
XI, 436 pages
978-3-11-080583-3 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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2 Abbildungen
2 ill.
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23,14 MB
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978-3-11-080583-3 (9783110805833)
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Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion
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Content
- Intro
- PREFACE BY THE EDITORS
- Introduction
- Part I: Essays in Sacred Biography
- 1. The many lives of Buddha: A study of sacred biography and Theravada tradition
- 2. Following the Beloved: Muhammad as model in the ?ufi tradition
- 3. The life of Sa?karacarya
- 4. Religious biography in India: The 'nectar of the acts' of Caitanya
- Part II: Biographical Traditions and Individual Lives
- 5. The story of Tukbaw: 'They listen as he orates'
- 6. Religious paradigms and political action: 'The murder in the cathedra' of Thomas Becket
- 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The birth of a seer
- 8. Newman's illness in Sicily: The reformer as biographer
- Part III: Individual Lives and Cultural Innovation
- 9. Personal identity and cultural crisis: The case of Anagarika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka
- 10. The Beecher family: Microcosm of a chapter in the evolution of religious sensibility in America
- 11. Psychohistory and communal patterns: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida community
- 12. The uses and limits of psychobiography as an approach to popular culture: The case of 'The Western'
- Part IV: From Individual Life to Hagiography
- 13. Kukai as master and savior
- 14. The death and 'lives' of the poet-monk Saigyo : The genesis of a Buddhist sacred biography
- 15. The loneliness of Matsuo Basho
- 16. Lincoln's martyrdom: A study of exemplary mythic patterns
- Bibliography
- 1. Lives of founders
- 2. Lives and legends of saints
- 3. Saviors, heroes, and divine personages
- 4. Reformers, rulers, and other religious leaders
- 5. Social scientific studies of religious individuals
- 6. Comparative biographical studies
- 7. General works in biography and autobiography
- 8. Author's index to the bibliography
- Index of Proper Names
