Obeyesekere The Awakened Ones

Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-52730-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Obeyesekere, Gananath

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings
Book 2. Mah?y?na: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision
Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals
Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul
Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason
Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East
Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming
Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth
Envoi—Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer's Dream and the Return of the Vultures
Notes
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gananath Obeyesekere is professor emeritus of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Cannibal Talk: Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Sea; Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth; Land Tenure in Village Ceylon; Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience; The Cult of the Goddess Pattini; Buddhism Transformed; The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology; and The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, which won the prize for most outstanding book in sociology and anthropology from the Association of American Publishers and the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.