Self-Alteration : : How People Change Themselves across Cultures /

Self-Alteration : : How People Change Themselves across Cultures / / ed. by Jean-Paul Baldacchino, Christopher Houston.

Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different-to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transfor...

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HerausgeberIn:
Baldacchino, Jean-Paul,
Houston, Christopher,
MitwirkendeR:
Harwood, Max,
Hizi, Gil,
Jackson, Michael,
Kavesh, Muhammad,
Orsini, Gisella,
Rapport, Nigel,
Rountree, Kathryn,
Senay, Banu,
Timmer, Jaap,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 4 color images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION A TIME FOR CHANGE Modes of Self-Alteration Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston
  • Part I RELIGIOUS CULTURES, SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND SELF-ALTERATION
  • 1 EXEMPLARY MASTERS, EXEMPLARY REEDS Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music
  • 2 REIMAGINING SELF AND SELF-ALTERATION IN CONTEMPORARY NEW AGE, PAGAN, AND NEOSHAMANIC SPIRITUALITIES
  • 3 WOUNDED BY GRACE Becoming a Prophet in an Evangelical Revival in Solomon Islands
  • Part II SELF-ALTERATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM
  • 4 FABRICATING THE NEW MAN AND WOMAN Self-Alteration through Revolutionary Socialism
  • 5 TRANSCENDENTAL TERROR Zen Self-Transformation through White Supremacist Atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch
  • Part III GENDERED BODIES AND THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
  • 6 BEAUTIFUL, MORAL, FUNCTIONAL Bodily Self-Alteration in an Italian Center for Eating Disorders
  • 7 POROUS INDIVIDUALITY AS SELF-ALTERATION Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China
  • 8 HOW IS PSYCHOANALYSIS A MODE OF SELF-ALTERATION? Anthropological Interrogations
  • Part IV SELF-ALTERATION, THE HUMAN, AND THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN
  • 9 MUTUALISTIC SELF-ALTERATION Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan
  • 10 SELF-ALTERATION AS HUMAN CAPACITY AND AS COSMOPOLITAN RIGHT
  • AFTERWORD MAKING ONESELF OTHERWISE Reflections on Natality
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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