The Ascetic Self
Subtitle: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521843386
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religious life & practice; Religion - World Religions; Education; Religion; Religion / General; Comparative studies; Asceticism; Psychology
First sentence: This book is devoted to the possibility of understanding the ascetic self in a time when most of us no longer find a place within ascetic traditions and in which asceticism is treated with suspicion.