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Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic

From the book Religious Individualisation

  • Avner Ben-Zaken
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580853-051
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Religious Individualisation
Religious Individualisation

Chapters in this book (72)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
Volume 1
General introduction
Part 1: Transcending selves
Introduction: Transcending Selves
Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence
‘Vase of light’: from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great’s Super Iohannem
Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart
The inward sublime: Kant’s aesthetics and the Protestant tradition
Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion
Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization
Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self
Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence
Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation
‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house!’ (Gen. 12:1): Schelling’s Boehmian redefinition of idealism
Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation
Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti
Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab
Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation
Part 2: The dividual self
Introduction: the dividual self
Section 2.1: Dividual socialities
The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great’s OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity
Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart
The empathic subject and the question of dividuality
Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality
Afterword: dividual socialities
Section 2.2: Parting the self
Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry
The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice
Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing
Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality
Afterword: parting the self
Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine
Paul’s Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts
Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination
The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment
‘Greater love …’: Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood
Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography
Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine
Religious Individualisation Volume 2
Part 3: Conventions and contentions
Introduction: conventions and contentions
Section 3.1: Practices
Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach
Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions
Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice
Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Migrant precarity and religious individualisation
The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation
Afterword: practices
Section 3.2: Texts and narratives
‘… quod nolo, illud facio’ (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self
Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs
Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi
Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās’ Samayasāra Nāṭaka
Subjects of conversion in colonial central India
Many biographies – multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang
Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus
Afterword: texts and narratives
Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation
Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation
Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity
Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world
Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne
Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic
Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi
Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950)
Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position?
Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany
Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation
Section 4.2: Pluralisation
Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata
Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion
Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity
Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662)
Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective
Afterword: pluralisation
Section 4.3: Walking the edges
Understanding ‘prophecy’: charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach
Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages
The lonely antipope – or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual
Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement
Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self
Afterword: walking the edges
Contributors
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