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100 1 _aBagger, Matthew C.
245 1 4 _aThe uses of paradox :
_breligion, self-transformation, and the absurd /
_cMatthew Bagger.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c©2007.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 132 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
520 _aIn 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.
546 _aIn English.
650 0 _aParadox.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097756
650 0 _aReligion.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112549
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
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650 2 _aReligion
650 2 _aPhilosophy
650 6 _aParadoxe.
650 6 _aReligion.
650 6 _aPhilosophie.
650 7 _areligion (discipline)
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650 7 _aphilosophy.
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650 7 _aRELIGION
_xGeneral.
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650 7 _aRELIGION
_xComparative Religion.
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650 7 _aRELIGION
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650 7 _aRELIGION
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650 7 _aParadox
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650 7 _aPhilosophy
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650 7 _aReligion
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655 0 _aElectronic books.
758 _ihas work:
_aThe uses of paradox (Text)
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBagger, Matthew C.
_tUses of paradox.
_dNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2007
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