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The Biographical Process : Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion / ed. by Donald Capps, Frank E. Reynolds.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion ; 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (436 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027975225
  • 9783110805833
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.1 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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

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Issued also in print.

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In English.

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