TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glucklich,Ariel
TI  - Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
SN  - 9780198030409
AV  - BL627.5BL627.5.G58 2001 
U1  - 291.3291.447 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - Pain
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Douleur
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Rituel
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Religion - General
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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