Sacred Pain : Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul.

By:

Glucklich, Ariel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198030409
0198030401
0195132548
9780195132540
0195169433
9780195169430

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

291.3 291.447

LOC classification:

BL627.5 BL627.5.G58 2001

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.