Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions

by David Dean Shulman

Book Overview

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195148169
• ISBN13: 9780195148169
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"