Gananath Obeyesekere (Princeton University Professor Emeritus)

Broschiertes Buch

The Awakened Ones

Phenomenology of Visionary Experience

Beschreibung

While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena.

Autor

Gananath Obeyesekere is professor emeritus of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Cannibal Talk: Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Sea; Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth; Land Tenure in Village Ceylon; Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience; The Cult of the Goddess Pattini; Buddhism Transformed; The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology; and The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, which won the prize for most outstanding book in sociology and anthropology from the Association of American Publishers and the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780231153638
• ISBN-10: 0231153635
• Artikelnr.: 66722416