Sacred Pain : Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul.
Glucklich, Ariel.
Sacred Pain : Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Religious Ways of Hurting; TWO: Pain and Transcendence: The Neurological Grounds; THREE: The Psychology and Communication of Pain; FOUR: Self and Sacrifice: A Psychology of Sacred Pain; FIVE: Ghost Trauma: Changing Identity through Pain; SIX: The Emotions of Passage; SEVEN: The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt; EIGHT: Anesthetics and the End of "Good Pain"; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet?. In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological.
English.
9780198030409 (electronic bk.) 0198030401 (electronic bk.) 0195132548 9780195132540 0195169433 9780195169430
Pain--Religious aspects.
Ritual--Psychology.
Douleur--Aspect religieux.
Rituel--Psychologie.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Pain--Religious aspects.
Ritual--Psychology.
Religion.
Religion - General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BL627.5 BL627.5.G58 2001
291.3 291.447
Sacred Pain : Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Religious Ways of Hurting; TWO: Pain and Transcendence: The Neurological Grounds; THREE: The Psychology and Communication of Pain; FOUR: Self and Sacrifice: A Psychology of Sacred Pain; FIVE: Ghost Trauma: Changing Identity through Pain; SIX: The Emotions of Passage; SEVEN: The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt; EIGHT: Anesthetics and the End of "Good Pain"; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet?. In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological.
English.
9780198030409 (electronic bk.) 0198030401 (electronic bk.) 0195132548 9780195132540 0195169433 9780195169430
Pain--Religious aspects.
Ritual--Psychology.
Douleur--Aspect religieux.
Rituel--Psychologie.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Pain--Religious aspects.
Ritual--Psychology.
Religion.
Religion - General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BL627.5 BL627.5.G58 2001
291.3 291.447