TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bagger,Matthew C.
TI  - The uses of paradox: religion, self-transformation, and the absurd 
SN  - 023151185X
AV  - BC199.P2 B34 2007eb
U1  - 200 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Paradox
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Paradoxe
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - religion (discipline)
KW  - aat
KW  - philosophy
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism
N2  - In this groundbreaking comparative study, Matthew Bagger investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse. Drawing on both philosophy and social scientific theory, he offers a naturalistic explanation of religion's oft-noted propensity to sublime paradox and argues that religious thinkers employ intractable paradoxes as the basis for various techniques of self-transformation. Considering the writings of Kierkegaard, Pseudo-Dionysus, St. John of the Cross, N?g?rjuna, and Chuang-tzu, among others, Bagger identifies two religious uses of paradox: cognitive asc
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