Asceticism /
Asceticism /
edited by Vincent Wimbush, Richard Valantasis ; with assistance of Gay L. Byron, William S. Love
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1998.
- x, 258 p. ; 25 cm.
- American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series .
Includes bibliographical references.
The ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity / Patrick Olivelle -- Epicurus' role in controversies on asceticism in European religious history / Ulrich Berner -- Aryan national religion(s) and the criticism of asceticism and quietism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Max Deeg -- Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman -- The Caiva devaluation of Pautta and Cain̲a asceticism in precolonial Tamil̲akam / Peter Schalk -- Imitatio Christi in Christian martyrdom and asceticism : a critical dialogue / Isabelle Kinnard -- "The epitome of the ascetic life" : the controversy over self-mortification and ritual suicide as ascetic practices in East Asian Buddhism / Christoph Kleine -- "I have chosen sickness" : the controversial function of sickness in early Christian ascetic practice / Andrew Crislip -- "Gotamī, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravāda Buddhism / Ute Hüsken -- Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger.
0195085353 0195151380 (pbk)
Asceticism--History--Congresses.
Asceticism--Congresses.--Comparative studies
Asia--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Europe--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
291.447 / ASC
Includes bibliographical references.
The ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity / Patrick Olivelle -- Epicurus' role in controversies on asceticism in European religious history / Ulrich Berner -- Aryan national religion(s) and the criticism of asceticism and quietism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Max Deeg -- Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman -- The Caiva devaluation of Pautta and Cain̲a asceticism in precolonial Tamil̲akam / Peter Schalk -- Imitatio Christi in Christian martyrdom and asceticism : a critical dialogue / Isabelle Kinnard -- "The epitome of the ascetic life" : the controversy over self-mortification and ritual suicide as ascetic practices in East Asian Buddhism / Christoph Kleine -- "I have chosen sickness" : the controversial function of sickness in early Christian ascetic practice / Andrew Crislip -- "Gotamī, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravāda Buddhism / Ute Hüsken -- Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger.
0195085353 0195151380 (pbk)
Asceticism--History--Congresses.
Asceticism--Congresses.--Comparative studies
Asia--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Europe--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
291.447 / ASC