Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004379008
Series Statement:
Studies in the history of religions v. 78
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- About Jacob Taubes, Who Crossed Frontiers /Peter Glotz -- Soul, Self—Reincarnation: African Perspectives /Theo Sundermeier -- Narrative Identity and Auricular Confession as Biography-Generators /Alois Hahn -- The Historico-Psychological Interpretation of Trichotomic Anthropologies, with Special Regard to the Conflict Theory of Georg Simmel -- Adam the Panphysiognomist: A Stage in Modern Physiognomics /Moshe Barasch -- In the Face of Death: Mortality and Religious Life in the Bible, in Rabbinic Literature and in the Pauline Letters /Israel Knohl -- Breath, Kiss, and Speech as the Source of the Animation of Life: Ancient Foundations of Rabbinic Homilies on the Giving of the Torah as the Kiss of God /Admiel Kosman -- Finding Oneself in a Sectarian Context: A Sectarian's Food and Its Implications /Albert I. Baumgarten -- The Flesh, the Person, and the Other in Rabbinic Anthropology -- From Corpse to Corpus: The Body as a Text in Talmudic Literature /Nissan Rubin -- Self, Identity, and Body in Paul and John /Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce -- The Two Souls and the Divided Will /C. G. Stroumsa and Paula Fredriksen -- Cures and Karma: Healing and Being Healed in Jain Religious Literature /Phyllis Granoff -- Health and Salvation in Early Daoism. On the Anthropology and Cosmology of the Taiping Jing /Hubert Seiwert -- Illness and Self: Zhiyuan's Two Autobiographical Essays /Koichi Shinohara -- Face of God—Face of Man: The Significance of the Direction of Prayer in Islam /Angelika Neuwirth -- Twelfth Century Concepts of Soul and Body: The Maimonidean Controversy in Baghdad /Sarah Stroumsa -- Persona and Self in Stoic Philosophy /Hubert Cancik -- Platonic Soul, Aristotelian Form, Christian Person /John M. Rist -- Ghost and God: Some Observations on a Babylonian Understanding of Human Nature /Tzvi Abusch -- A Dialogue Between Self and Soul: Papyrus Berlin 3024 -- Faithful Bodies. Ancient Greek Sources on Oriental Eunuchs -- Corpus: Some Philological and Anthropological Remarks upon Roman Funerary Customs /Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Index of Subjects and Names -- List of Contributors -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.
Content:
The papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we may imagine them to be biological as well; but in fact, they are social constructs, and a source of fundamental metaphors for the classification of experience. They thus help organize the world, at the same time as they express basic human identity. They vary from culture to culture and can productively be compared and contrasted from one setting to another. We intend these papers to be a test case of the benefit to be gained from attention to Religious Anthropology
Note:
Papers presented at the first international colloquium sponsored by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in Feb. 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004109438
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience Leiden, Boston : BRILL, [1998] ISBN 9789004109438
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004379008
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