Self-Alteration

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Time for Change: Modes of Self-Alteration
Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston

Part I: Religious Cultures, Spiritual Practices, and Self-Alteration
Chapter 2 Exemplary Masters, Exemplary Reeds: Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music
Banu Şenay
Chapter 3 Re-imagining Self and Self-Alteration in Contemporary New Age, Pagan and Neo-Shamanic Spiritualities
Kathryn Rountree
Chapter 4 Wounded by Grace: Becoming a Prophet in an Evangelical Revival in Solomon Islands
Jaap Timmer

Part II: Self-Alteration and Political Activism
Chapter 5 Fabricating the New Man and Woman: Self-Alteration Through Revolutionary Socialism
Christopher Houston
Chapter 6 Transcendental Terror: Zen Self-Transformation through White Supremacist Atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch
Max Harwood

Part III: Gendered Bodies and Therapeutic Interventions
Chapter 7 Beautiful, Moral, Functional: Bodily Self-Alteration in an Italian Centre for Eating Disorders
Gisella Orsini
Chapter 8 Porous Individuality as Self-Alteration: Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China
Gil Hizi
Chapter 9 How Is Psychoanalysis a Mode of Self-Alteration? Anthropological Interrogations
Jean-Paul Baldacchino

Part IV: Self-Alteration, The Human, and the More-Than-Human
Chapter 10 Mutualistic Self-Alteration: Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan
Muhammad A. Kavesh
Chapter 11 Self-Alteration as Human Capacity and as Cosmopolitan Right
Nigel Rapport

Part V: Afterword
Chapter 12 Making Oneself Otherwise: Reflections on Natality
Michael Jackson

Acknowledgments     
Notes on Contributors
Index