Intentional Transformative Experiences: Theorizing Self-Cultivation in Religion and Esotericism

This book offers new theoretical insights into religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices and narratives that deal with...
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Author: Sarah Perez
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Intentional Transformative Experiences: Theorizing Self-Cultivation in Religion and Esotericism by Perez, Sarah

Intentional Transformative Experiences: Theorizing Self-Cultivation in Religion and Esotericism

$317.06

Intentional Transformative Experiences: Theorizing Self-Cultivation in Religion and Esotericism

$317.06
Author: Sarah Perez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This book offers new theoretical insights into religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices and narratives that deal with "intentional transformative experiences." Exceptional life-changing experiences are often believed to be beyond the individual's control--they are thought to "simply happen." However, many individuals actively and self-reflectively search for transformative experiences.

Intentional Transformative Experiences provides analyses of such intentionally sought experiences in different spiritual, religious, and esoteric milieus. Case studies range from South and Central Asian traditions to Western esoteric practices, compare autobiographical narratives of self-cultivation, and explore attempts to systematize intentional transformative experiences.

Next to applying established theoretical frameworks, such as the cognitive science of religion and philosophy, this volume also includes considerations on subsets of transformative experiences such as the dichotomy of intentionality and unintentionality, risk and failure, as well as the transformation of others instead of one's own self. The result is an important contribution for researchers who deal with narratives or practices that include "transformative experiences."



Author: Sarah Perez
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 09/23/2024
Pages: 337
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9783110991055

About the Author
Jens Schlieter, Bastiaan Benjamin van Rijn and Sarah Perez, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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