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Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth |
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| 作者 |
Obeyesekere, Gananath (著)
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| 出版日期 | 2002.10.07 |
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| 頁次 | 520 |
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| 出版者 | University of California Press |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://www.ucpress.edu/
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| 出版地 | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 關鍵詞 | rebirth concepts; India; death; cosmology; morality; eschatology; reincarnation; family resemblances |
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| 摘要 | The author embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada and the northwest coast of North America. Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato.
His groundbreaking and authoritative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth. As he compares responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence, he challenges readers to reexamine accepted ideas about death, cosmology, morality and eschatology.
Obeyesekere's comprehensive inquiry shows that diverse societies have come through independent invention or borrowing to believe in reincarnation as an integral part of their larger cosmological systems. He brings together into a coherent methodological framework the thought of such diverse thinkers as Weber, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche. With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar, and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth. As Obeyesekere compares responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence, he challenges readers to reexamine accepted ideas about death, cosmology, morality, and eschatology. Obeyesekere's comprehensive inquiry shows that diverse societies have come through independent invention or borrowing to believe in reincarnation as an integral part of their larger cosmological systems. The author brings together into a coherent methodological framework the thought of such diverse thinkers as Weber, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche. In a contemporary intellectual context that celebrates difference and cultural relativism, this book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of "family resemblances" and differences across great cultural divides. 11 line illustrations --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
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| 目次 | Front Matter
Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
Copyright Page
Dedication
Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations
2 Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth
3 The Imaginary Experiment and The Buddhist Implications
4 The Buddhist Ascesis
5 Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth
6 Rebirth and Reason
7 Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited
End Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Index |
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| ISBN | 0520232437 (paper); 0585466432 (E); 9780520232204; 9780520936300 (Online) |
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| 相關書評 | - Book Review: Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth by Gananath Obeyesekere / Teiser, Stephen F. (評論)
- Book Review: Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth by Gananath Obeyesekere / Ellis, Thomas Baynard (評論)
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| 點閱次數 | 411 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2004.02.20
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| 更新日期 | 2023.10.13 |
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