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5 Bathed in Milk

Metaphors of Suckling and Spiritual Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah
© 2013 State University of New York

© 2013 State University of New York

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Foreword xi
  5. Introduction xvii
  6. Figuring Religious Ideas
  7. Marking Religion’s Boundaries 3
  8. “Epic” as an Amnesiac Metaphor 35
  9. Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi 63
  10. Theorizing Embodiment 91
  11. Figuring Religious Images
  12. Bathed in Milk 117
  13. Metaphors and Images of Dress and Nakedness 147
  14. Figuring Religious Activities
  15. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational thought in Early India and Elsewhere 179
  16. Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient Greece and China 199
  17. In Search of Equivalence 229
  18. Afterword 263
  19. Contributors 281
  20. Index 283
Figuring Religions
This chapter is in the book Figuring Religions
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438445397-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Foreword xi
  5. Introduction xvii
  6. Figuring Religious Ideas
  7. Marking Religion’s Boundaries 3
  8. “Epic” as an Amnesiac Metaphor 35
  9. Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi 63
  10. Theorizing Embodiment 91
  11. Figuring Religious Images
  12. Bathed in Milk 117
  13. Metaphors and Images of Dress and Nakedness 147
  14. Figuring Religious Activities
  15. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational thought in Early India and Elsewhere 179
  16. Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient Greece and China 199
  17. In Search of Equivalence 229
  18. Afterword 263
  19. Contributors 281
  20. Index 283
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