دانلود کتاب The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion

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PREFACE BY THE EDITORS
Introduction
Part I: Essays in Sacred Biography
1. The many lives of Buddha: A study of sacred biography and Theravāda tradition
2. Following the Beloved: Muhammad as model in the ?ufi tradition
3. The life of Śaṅkarācārya
4. Religious biography in India: The ‘nectar of the acts’ of Caitanya
Part II: Biographical Traditions and Individual Lives
5. The story of Tukbaw: ‘They listen as he orates’
6. Religious paradigms and political action: ‘The murder in the cathedra‘ of Thomas Becket
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The birth of a seer
8. Newman’s illness in Sicily: The reformer as biographer
Part III: Individual Lives and Cultural Innovation
9. Personal identity and cultural crisis: The case of Anagarika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka
10. The Beecher family: Microcosm of a chapter in the evolution of religious sensibility in America
11. Psychohistory and communal patterns: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida community
12. The uses and limits of psychobiography as an approach to popular culture: The case of ‘The Western’
Part IV: From Individual Life to Hagiography
13. Kūkai as master and savior
14. The death and ‘lives’ of the poet-monk Saigyō : The genesis of a Buddhist sacred biography
15. The loneliness of Matsuo Bashō
16. Lincoln’s martyrdom: A study of exemplary mythic patterns
Bibliography
1. Lives of founders
2. Lives and legends of saints
3. Saviors, heroes, and divine personages
4. Reformers, rulers, and other religious leaders
5. Social scientific studies of religious individuals
6. Comparative biographical studies
7. General works in biography and autobiography
8. Author’s index to the bibliography
Index of Proper Names