Asceticism and its critics : historical accounts and comparative perspectives / edited by Oliver Freiberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freiberger, Oliver.

Series:

American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asceticism--History--Congresses.

Asceticism.

Asceticism--Comparative studies--Congresses.

History.

Asia--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

Asia.

Europe--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

Europe.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195307917

OCLC:

62728478

Publisher Number:

9780195307917

Online:

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