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.

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Asceticism--History--Congresses.
Asceticism--Congresses.--Comparative studies


Asia--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Europe--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

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