| Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience Contributor(s): Baumgartner, Albert I. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004109439 ISBN-13: 9789004109438 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $279.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: The papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we may imagine them to be biological as well; but in fact, they are social constructs, and a source of fundamental metaphors for the classification of experience. They thus help organize the world, at the same time as they express basic human identity. They vary from culture to culture and can productively be compared and contrasted from one setting to another. We intend these papers to be a test case of the benefit to be gained from attention to Religious Anthropology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 291.22 |
| LCCN: 98021200 |
| Series: Studies in the History of Religions |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 6.46" W x 9.62" (2.06 lbs) 444 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we may imagine them to be biological as well; but in fact, they are social constructs, and a source of fundamental metaphors for the classification of experience. They thus help organize the world, at the same time as they express basic human identity. They vary from culture to culture and can productively be compared and contrasted from one setting to another. We intend these papers to be a test case of the benefit to be gained from attention to Religious Anthropology. |