Fetishizing tradition
Subtitle: desire and reinvention in Buddhist and Christian narratives
By: Alan Cole
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781438457451; 9781438457468
Subjects: Desire; Buddhism; Christianity; Doctrines; Christian art and symbolism; Fetishism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Methodology and a world of commentary; title: Paul's letters, or how God became a Jewish priest; title: The Gospel of Mark, or narrative as floating patriarchy; title: The Sutra on the land of bliss, or, that place between texts and tongues; title: The platform Sutra of the sixth patriarch, or, paternal truth for the masses.