“…The first handbook to discuss all aspects of genius with contributions from a multi-disciplinary group of experts Covers the origins, characteristics, careers, and consequences of genius with a focus on cognitive science, individual differences, life-span development, and social context Explores individual genius, creators, leaders, and performers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I, Simón Bolívar, Mohandas Gandhi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, John William Coltrane, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Martha Graham. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…': Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood -- Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography -- Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Religious Individualisation Volume 2 -- Part 3: Conventions and contentions -- Introduction: conventions and contentions -- Section 3.1: Practices -- Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach -- Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions -- Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice -- Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Migrant precarity and religious individualisation -- The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation -- Afterword: practices -- Section 3.2: Texts and narratives -- '... quod nolo, illud facio' (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self -- Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs -- Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi -- Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās' Samayasāra Nāṭaka -- Subjects of conversion in colonial central India -- Many biographies - multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang -- Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus -- Afterword: texts and narratives -- Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation -- Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation -- Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity -- Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world -- Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne -- Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic -- Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi -- Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) -- Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? …”

“…Aunque profundamente marcada por la época que analiza, esta compilación se lee como una reflexión contemporánea, cuyas preguntas y conclusiones resultan hoy tan vigentes e inspiradoras como un día lo fueron para pensadores de la talla de Rosa Luxemburgo, Ludwig Wittgenstein y Mohandas Gandhi…”