Fetishizing Tradition

Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist and Christian Narratives

AvAlan Cole

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.This innovative work documents the literary gesture that "fetishizes tradition," making long-standing religious traditions appear present and available through the reading experience. Taking as examples Paul's Letter to the Romans, the Gospel of Mark, the Sūtra on the Land of Bliss (Sukhāvatīvyūha), and the Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liuzu tanjing), Alan Cole shows how these texts invite readers into the fantasy that they can leave behind tradition's established rites, rituals, sacrifices, institutions, and festivals in order to take up just the text and its narrative as the key to salvation. Ironically, then, one's salvation is determined by how one receives the (new) message of salvation. Crucial to making these more virtual forms of tradition appear plausible is the reconstruction of tradition's "truth-fathers"-God or the Buddha, as the case may be-so that they appear to endorse the legitimacy of these new ways of being traditional. Relying on a wide body of critical theory, this book presents an intriguing way to rethink key elements in Christian and Buddhist thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:617 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:298
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438457451

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Buddhism inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Alan Cole is an independent scholar and the author of Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism; Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Literature; and Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism.

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fetishes and the Spirit of Religious Studies1. Methodology and a World of Commentary2. Paul’s Letters, or How God Became a Jewish Priest3. The Gospel of Mark, or Narrative as Floating Patriarchy4. The Sũtra on the Land of Bliss, or That Place between Tongues and Texts5. The Platform Sũtra of the Sixth Patriarch, or Paternal Truth for the MassesConclusions: The Limits of Fetishizing TraditionNotesBibliographyIndex

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