Religious Individualisation : : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1430 pages)
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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
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  • 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.