Religious individualisation : historical dimensions and comparative perspectives A cross cultural approach Facchini Cristiana Out of bounds still in control: exclusion religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages Mersch Katharina Ulrike The lonely antipope or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual Müller Schauenburg Britta Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation processes within the theosophical movement Haas Cornelia Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self Höke Vera Afterword: walking the edges Facchini Cristiana Haas Cornelia Höke Vera Mersch Katharina Müller Schauenburg Britta Contributors This volume brings together key findings of the long term research project Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches methods and theories the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods in particular in Asia the Mediterranean and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non Western and pre modern scenarios. Furthermore the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency the pluralisation of religious options dynamics of de traditionalisation and privatisation the development of elaborated notions of the self the facilitation of religious deviance and on the notion of dividuality Frontmatter Acknowledgements Contents Volume 1 General introduction Fuchs Martin Linkenbach Antje Mulsow Martin Otto Bernd Christian Parson Rahul Bjørn Rüpke Jörg Part 1: Transcending selves Introduction: Transcending Selves Fuchs Martin Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence Vase of light: from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek Arabic cosmology in Albert the Greats Super Iohannem Casteigt Julie Self transcendence in Meister Eckhart Mieth Dietmar The inward sublime: Kants aesthetics and the Protestant tradition Schlette Magnus Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion Gräb Schmidt Elisabeth Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization Engmann Matthias Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self Petersen Anders Klostergaard Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence Casteigt Julie Engmann Matthias Gräb Schmitt Elisabeth Mieth Dietmar Petersen Anders Klostergaard Schlette Magnus Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation Go from your country and your kindred and your fathers house! (Gen. 12:1): Schellings Boehmian redefinition of idealism Quero Sánchez Andrés Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation Raja Rubina Self affirmation self transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti Fuchs Martin Sufis Jogis and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab Murphy Anne Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation Fuchs Martin Murphy Anne Quero Sánchez Andrés Raja Rubina Part 2: The dividual self Introduction: the dividual self Linkenbach Antje Mulsow Martin Section 2.1: Dividual socialities The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Greats OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity Casteigt Julie Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart Vinzent Markus The empathic subject and the question of dividuality Linkenbach Antje Simmel and the forms of in dividuality Bueno Arthur Afterword: dividual socialities Bueno Arthur Casteigt Julie Linkenbach Antje Vinzent Markus Section 2.2: Parting the self Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry Bashir Shahzad The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th century Venice Suitner Riccarda Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing Mulsow Martin Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality Engmann Matthias Afterword: parting the self Bashir Shahzad Engmann Matthias Mulsow Martin Suitner Riccarda Section 2.3: Porosity corporeality and the divine Pauls Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation dividuation and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts Maier Harry O. Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination Eidinow Esther The swirl of worlds: possession porosity and embodiment Malik Aditya Greater love ...: Methodist missionaries self sacrifice and relational personhood Dureau Christine Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography Vinzent Jutta Afterword: porosity corporeality and the divine Dureau Christine Eidinow Esther Maier Harry Malik Aditya Vinzent Jutta Religious Individualisation Volume 2 Part 3: Conventions and contentions Introduction: conventions and contentions Section 3.1: Practices Religious individualisation in China: a two modal approach Herrmann Pillath Carsten Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions Patera Ioanna Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice Ramelli Ilaria L. E. Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Mulder Bakker Anneke B. Migrant precarity and religious individualisation Nijhawan Michael The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation Otto Bernd Christian Afterword: practices Hermann Pillath Carsten Mulder Bakker Anneke Nijhawan Michael Otto Bernd Christian Patera Ioanna Ramelli Ilaria Section 3.2: Texts and narratives ... quod nolo illud facio (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self Henderson Ian H. Individualisation deindividualisation and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs Feldhaus Anne Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi Banerjee Dube Ishita Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās Samayasāra Nāṭaka Parson Rahul Bjørn Subjects of conversion in colonial central India Dube Saurabh Many biographies multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang Deeg Max Jewish emancipation religious individualisation and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus Sander Sabine Afterword: texts and narratives Banerjee Dube Ishita Deeg Max Dube Saurabh Feldhaus Anne Henderson Ian Parson Rahul Bjørn Sander Sabine Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation Rüpke Jörg Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco Roman world Gordon Richard Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides Socrates and the fair breasted Phryne Bremmer Jan N. Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic Ben Zaken Avner Singular individuals conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi Sangari Kumkum Being Hindu in India: culture religion and the Gita Press (1950) Dalmia Vasudha Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position Hoffmann Veronika Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany Nijhawan Michael Afterword: de and neotraditionalisation Ben Zaken Avner Bremmer Jan Dalmia Vasudha Gordon Richard Nijhawan Michael Sangari Kumkum Section 4.2: Pluralisation Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata Malinar Angelika Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion Rüpke Jörg Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity Frenkel Luise Marion Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580 1662) Ben Tov Asaph Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective Dey Amit Afterword: pluralisation Ben Tov Asaph Dey Amit Frenkel Luise Marion Malinar Angelika Rüpke Jörg Section 4.3: Walking the edges Understanding prophecy: charisma religious enthusiasm and religious individualisation in the 17th century.