num_pages: 304
description: Focusing on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, this book argues that asceticism must be understood within the boundaries of tradition. It exemplifies a completely new paradigm for comparative religion which seeks to avoid a problematic universalism on the one hand and an area-specific relativism on the other. The volume's original contribution to methodology will be influential in the future development of comparative religious studies.
language: English
title: The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
titlecomplete: The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
genres: Philosophy, Religion
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Cambridge University Press