Cole Fetishizing Tradition

Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist and Christian Narratives
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5746-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Fetishes and the Spirit of Religious Studies

1. Methodology and a World of Commentary

2. Paul’s Letters, or How God Became a Jewish Priest

3. The Gospel of Mark, or Narrative as Floating Patriarchy

4. The Sutra on the Land of Bliss, or That Place between Tongues and Texts

5. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, or Paternal Truth for the Masses

Conclusions: The Limits of Fetishizing Tradition

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Cole is an independent scholar and the author of Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism; Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature; and Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism.