Sakralisierung des Selbst

Praktiken und Traditionen der Subjektivierung

edited by Michael Roth, Barbara Thums and Mirko Uhlig

Book cover: Sakralisierung des Selbst

Extent: 148 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Anthropology, Literary Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Theologie - Kultur - Hermeneutik

Series volume number: 33

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9783374069545

Price: $49.00

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The Mainz Research Training Group Ethnographies of the Self in the Present examines the variety of current practices and traditions of subjectification and self-forming. Its starting point is the following observation: recent formations of the self are closely linked to the challenges of the digital age and the changing possibilities of acts of self-staging. This book compiles contributions from literary studies, theology, sociology and cultural anthropology. Based on printed sources and empirical material, it focuses on practices and traditions of the self in the present and forms of self-enhancement. Which ways and means of charging one’s own biography with religious symbolism are observed? How are they discursively located? What are the cultural, ethical and aesthetic fields in which current sacralizations of the self are placed?

  • Edited by Michael Roth
  • Edited by Barbara Thums
  • Edited by Mirko Uhlig