Uses of Paradox: Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd

by Matthew Bagger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $73.57

  Investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse. Drawing on both philosophy and social scientific theory, this book offers a naturalistic explanation of religion's oft-noted propensity to sublime paradox and argues that religious thinkers employ intractable paradoxes as basis for various techniques of self-transformation.