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Tables of Contents for Imagining Karma
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xiii
List of Abbreviations
xxvii
Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations
1
18
Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth
19
53
West Africa
19
9
The Trobriand Model
28
9
Animal and Human Reincarnation: Northwest Coast Indians and Inuit (Eskimo)
37
6
Human and Animal Transformations
43
3
Kinship, Rebirth, and Desire
46
4
Tlingit Eschatology: Rebirth, Desire, and the Return of the Dead
50
8
Animal and Human Reincarnation: An Ethical Dilemma among the Kwakiutl
58
12
Concluding Remarks
70
2
The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications
72
78
The Transformation of the Rebirth Eschatology
72
6
Emergence of the Karmic Eschatology
78
6
Upanishadic Ethicization: The Earliest Indic Model
84
4
The Model and the Buddhist Interconnections
88
9
Ethicization in Its Historical Context: The Samanic Religions
97
1
Contemporary Tribal Religions
98
1
Ethicization, Axiology, and the Brahmanic Tradition
99
3
Nonethicized Samanic Religions: The Doctrines of the Ajivikas
102
6
Eel-Wrigglers and Hair-Splitters: Contentious Discourses in Buddhist Thought
108
7
Ethical Transformation and the Axial Age: Ethical Prophecy and Ethical Asceticism
115
5
Rationalization and the Transformation of Thought
120
5
The Limits of Innovative Thought: Temporality, Impermanence, Nirvana
125
4
Karma, Causality, and the Aporias of Existence
129
11
Ethicization, Karma, and Everyday Life
140
4
Ascetic Religiosity and the Escape from the World
144
6
The Buddhist Ascesis
150
40
The Imagined Buddha
150
8
The Renunciatory Ideal in the Buddhist Imagination
158
2
The Buddha as Seer: The Life Fate of the Buddhist Dead
160
4
Samanism and Shamanism: Ecstasis, Enstasis, and Spirit Possession
164
4
Ethicization and the Creation of a God-Making Machine
168
5
Ethicization and Axiologization
173
3
Buddhism, Axiologization, and the Vedic Tradition
176
6
Axiologization Continued: Homo Hierarchicus and Homo Aequalis in India
182
8
Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth
190
59
Methodological Remarks
190
3
Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism: A Probable Mythos
193
7
History Telling Continued: Pythagorean Beginnings and Lifeways
200
7
Pythagorean Soteriology
207
7
Ethicization and Soteriology in Empedocles
214
18
Ethicization Step I: Popular Religiosity in Pindar
232
4
Orphic Reincarnation: A Brief Aside
236
4
Bridging Multiple Worlds: Plato and the Myth of Er
240
9
Rebirth and Reason
249
70
Metacosmesis in the Phaedo
249
5
The Soteriology and Eschatology of the Phaedrus
254
4
The Cosmology of the Timaeus
258
8
Cosmological Homoeroticism, Heterophobia, and Female Nature in Platonic Rebirth
266
4
Ethicization and Soteriology in the Platonic Dialogues
270
5
Regrouping: Rebirth, Memory, and Retrocognition
275
8
Reason, Conviction, and Eschatology in Platonic, Buddhist, and Amerindian Thought
283
4
``Karma'' in Greek Thought: Plotinian Eschatology and Soteriology
287
21
Rebirth and the Idea of God: The Druze Case
308
11
Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited
319
42
Reincarnation, Procreation, and the Embodiment of the Soul
319
12
Buddhism, Procreation, and Rebirth
331
3
Balinese Rebirth: Contentious Discourses on Rebirth and Karmic Eschatologies
334
10
Methodological Postscript
344
17
Notes
361
52
Bibliography
413
16
Index
429