| Description |
xi, 436 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Religion and reason ; 11
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Religion and reason ; 11.
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| Note |
Based on seminars held at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, 1972 and 1973. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-426). |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Essays in sacred biography: Many lives of Buddha: a study of sacred biography and Theravāda tradition / by Frank E. Reynolds -- Following the Beloved: Muhammad as model in the Sūfi tradition / by Earle Waugh -- Life of Śaṅkarācārya / by David N. Lorenzen -- Religious biography in India: the 'nectar of the acts' of Caitanya / by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. -- pt. 2. Biographical traditions and individual lives: Story of Tukbaw: 'they listen as he orates' / by Renato Rosaldo -- Religious paradigms and political action: 'the murder in the cathedral' of Thomas Becket / by Victor Turner -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: the birth of a seer / by Richard A. Hutch -- Newman's illness in Sicily: the reformer as biographer / by Donald Capps -- pt. 3. Individual lives and cultural innovation: Personal identity and cultural crisis: the case of Anagārika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka / by Gannath Obeyesekere -- Beecher family: microcosm of a chapter in the evolution of religious sensibility in America / by Robert Michaelsen -- Psychohistory and communal patterns: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida community / by Dennis Klass -- Uses and limits of psychobiography as an approach to popular culture: the case of 'The Western' / by Peter Homans -- pt. 4. From individual life to hagiography: Kūkai as master and savior / by Joseph M. Kitagawa -- Death and 'lives' of the poet-monk Saigyō: the genesis of a Buddhist sacred biography / by William La Fleur -- Loneliness of Matsuo Bashō / by James H. Foard -- Lincoln's martyrdom: a study of exemplary mythic patterns / by Donald Capps. |
| Genre/Form |
Religious biography.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Reynolds, Frank, 1930-
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Capps, Donald.
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University of Chicago. Divinity School.
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| ISBN |
9027975221 |
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9789027975225 |
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