The sacred body : asceticism in religion, literature, art, and culture /
Jasper, David.
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A sunlit landscape amid the night of nonbeing -- The soul as sacred space -- The body, sacred and profane -- The word and the body -- Asceticism as a way of love, with a modern excursus -- Asceticism, imposed and recovered : Velázquez, Martha, and the eyes of faith -- The eucharistic body in literature and modern experience : George Herbert and Simone Weil -- Holiness and the resurrection body : Meister Eckhart and James Joyce -- Romanticism and the recovery of the sacred in language -- The possibility of a contemporary theology.
Human body in literature.
Human body
Asceticism in literature.
Asceticism in art.
Sacred body.