ISBN:
0195307917
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 258 S.
Series Statement:
American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series
DDC:
204.4709
Keywords:
Asceticism Congresses History
;
Asceticism Comparative studies
;
Congresses
;
Asia Congresses Religious life and customs
;
Europe Congresses Religious life and customs
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Askese
Description / Table of 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 19th and 20th century / Max Deeg -- Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman -- The Saiva devaluation of Pautta, and Saiva asceticism in pre-colonial Tamilakam / 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 -- "Gotami, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravada Buddhism / Ute Hüsken -- Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger
Note:
Literaturangaben
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2005035879-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2005035879-b.html
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