Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Prologue 1
6. Chapter One. The Differential Tradition 11
7. Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm 32
8. Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy 53
9. Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s) 79
10. Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I) 96
11. Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II) 115
12. Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics 132
13. Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons 148
14. Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death 179
15. Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream 209
16. Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression 231
17. Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods 258
18. Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism 284
19. Epilogue 304
20. Glossary 321
21. Bibliography 331
22. Index 393
23. Errata 401