Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives.
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2019.
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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 &
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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.