TY - BOOK AU - Capps,Donald AU - Dimock,Edward C. AU - Foard,James H. AU - Homans,Peter AU - Hutch,Richard A. AU - Kitagawa,Joseph M. AU - Klass,Dennis AU - La Fleur,William AU - Lorenzen,David N. AU - Michaelsen,Robert AU - Obeyesekere,Gananath AU - Reynolds,Frank E. AU - Rosaldo,Renato AU - Turner,Victor AU - Waugh,Earle TI - The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion T2 - Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , SN - 9789027975225 U1 - 296.1 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Theology and Religious Studies KW - Religious Studies KW - Comparative Studies KW - Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies KW - RELIGION / Religion & Science KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I: Essays in Sacred Biography --; The Many Lives of Buddha --; Following the Beloved --; The Life of Saṅkarācārya --; Religious Biography in India: The ‘Nectar of the Acts’ of Caitanya --; PART II: Biographical Traditions and Individual Lives --; The Story of Tukbaw: ‘They Listen as He Orates’ --; Religious Paradigms and Political Action: --; Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Birth of a Seer --; Newman’s Illness in Sicily: The Reformer as Biographer --; PART III: Individual Lives and Cultural Innovation --; Personal Identity and Cultural Crisis --; The Beecher Family --; Psychohistory and Communal Patterns --; The Uses and Limits of Psychobiography as an Approach to Popular Culture: The Case of ‘The Western’ --; PART IV: From Individual Life to Hagiography --; Kūkai as Master and Savior --; The Death and ‘Lives’ of the Poet-Monk Saigyō --; The Loneliness of Matsuo Bashō --; Lincoln’s Martyrdom --; Bibliography --; Index of Proper Names; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805833 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110805833 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110805833/original ER -