TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wimbush,Vincent L.
AU  - Valantasis,Richard
AU  - Byron,Gay L.
AU  - Love,William S.
TI  - Asceticism
SN  - 0195085353
U1  - 291.447 23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - Asia
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Europe
N1  - 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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