Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Volume 1
5. General introduction 1
6. Part 1: Transcending selves
7. Introduction: Transcending Selves 35
8. Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence
9. ‘Vase of light’: from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great’s Super Iohannem 53
10. Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart 73
11. The inward sublime: Kant’s aesthetics and the Protestant tradition 99
12. Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion 141
13. Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization 159
14. Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self 185
15. Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence 215
16. Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation
17. ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house!’ (Gen. 12:1): Schelling’s Boehmian redefinition of idealism 223
18. Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation 243
19. Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti 257
20. Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab 289
21. Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation 315
22. Part 2: The dividual self
23. Introduction: the dividual self 323
24. Section 2.1: Dividual socialities
25. The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great’s OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity 347
26. Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart 363
27. The empathic subject and the question of dividuality 383
28. Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality 409
29. Afterword: dividual socialities 437
30. Section 2.2: Parting the self
31. Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry 443
32. The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice 459
33. Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing 475
34. Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality 497
35. Afterword: parting the self 513
36. Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine
37. Paul’s Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts 519
38. Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination 541
39. The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment 559
40. ‘Greater love …’: Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood 583
41. Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography 603
42. Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine 625
43. Religious Individualisation Volume 2
44. Part 3: Conventions and contentions
45. Introduction: conventions and contentions 633
46. Section 3.1: Practices
47. Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach 643
48. Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions 669
49. Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice 695
50. Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 719
51. Migrant precarity and religious individualisation 737
52. The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation 759
53. Afterword: practices 797
54. Section 3.2: Texts and narratives
55. ‘… quod nolo, illud facio’ (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self 807
56. Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs 831
57. Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi 847
58. Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās’ Samayasāra Nāṭaka 865
59. Subjects of conversion in colonial central India 895
60. Many biographies – multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang 913
61. Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus 939
62. Afterword: texts and narratives 963
63. Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation
64. Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation 971
65. Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity
66. Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world 985
67. Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne 1009
68. Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic 1033
69. Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi 1065
70. Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) 1097
71. Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? 1121
72. Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany 1139
73. Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation 1165
74. Section 4.2: Pluralisation
75. Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata 1173
76. Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion 1201
77. Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity 1223
78. Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662) 1255
79. Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective 1269
80. Afterword: pluralisation 1291
81. Section 4.3: Walking the edges
82. Understanding ‘prophecy’: charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach 1299
83. Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages 1321
84. The lonely antipope – or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual 1351
85. Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement 1365
86. Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self 1381
87. Afterword: walking the edges 1401
88. Contributors 1405