Religious Individualisation : : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives.

• Author: Fuchs, Martin.
• TeilnehmendeR: Linkenbach, Antje.; Mulsow, Martin.; Otto, Bernd-Christian.; Parson, Rahul Bjø.; Rüpke, Jörg.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1430 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- General introduction -- Part 1: Transcending selves -- Introduction: Transcending Selves -- Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- 'Vase of light': from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great's Super Iohannem -- Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart -- The inward sublime: Kant's aesthetics and the Protestant tradition -- Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion -- Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization -- Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self -- Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation -- 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house!' (Gen. 12:1): Schelling's Boehmian redefinition of idealism -- Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation -- Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti -- Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab -- Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation -- Part 2: The dividual self -- Introduction: the dividual self -- Section 2.1: Dividual socialities -- The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great's OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity -- Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart -- The empathic subject and the question of dividuality -- Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality -- Afterword: dividual socialities -- Section 2.2: Parting the self -- Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry.

The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice -- Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing -- Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality -- Afterword: parting the self -- Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Paul's Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts -- Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination -- The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment -- 'Greater love …': Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood -- Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography -- Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Religious Individualisation Volume 2 -- Part 3: Conventions and contentions -- Introduction: conventions and contentions -- Section 3.1: Practices -- Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach -- Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions -- Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice -- Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Migrant precarity and religious individualisation -- The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation -- Afterword: practices -- Section 3.2: Texts and narratives -- '… quod nolo, illud facio' (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self -- Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs -- Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi.

Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās' Samayasāra Nāṭaka -- Subjects of conversion in colonial central India -- Many biographies - multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang -- Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus -- Afterword: texts and narratives -- Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation -- Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation -- Section 4.1: Between hegemony &amp -- amp -- heterogeneity -- Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world -- Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne -- Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic -- Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi -- Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) -- Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? -- Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany -- Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation -- Section 4.2: Pluralisation -- Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata -- Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion -- Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity -- Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) -- Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective -- Afterword: pluralisation -- Section 4.3: Walking the edges.

Understanding 'prophecy': charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach -- Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages -- The lonely antipope - or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual -- Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement -- Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self -- Afterword: walking the edges -- Contributors.