Asceticism and its critics : historical accounts and comparative perspectives / edited by Oliver Freiberger.
Contributor(s): Freiberger, Oliver
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TextSeries: American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series: Publisher: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: x, 258 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195307917 (alk. paper); 9780195307917 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Asceticism -- History -- Congresses | Asceticism -- Comparative studies -- Congresses | Asia -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses | Europe -- Religious life and customs -- CongressesDDC classification: 204/.4709 LOC classification: BL625 | .A838 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : the criticism of asceticism in comparative perspective / Oliver Freiberger -- 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.