Imagining Karma
Subtitle: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780520232433
Subjects: Anthropology; Comparative Religion; Mind, body, spirit: reincarnation & past lives; Theology; Religion - Church History; Comparative studies; Religion; Religious ethics; Religion / General; Christianity - General; Buddhism; Reincarnation
First sentence: The major problem that I investigate in this work is the manner in which the "rebirth eschatologies" of small-scale societies are transformed in two large-scale historical developments: in the "karmic eschatologies" that one associates today with religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism and in the Greek religious traditions that could be broadly defined as "Pythagorean."