Ascetism and its critics
Subtitle: historical accounts and comparative perspectives
By: edited by Oliver Freiberger.
Contributors: Freiberger, Oliver.
Series: American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780195307917
Subjects: Asceticism -- History -- Congresses; Asceticism -- Comparative studies -- Congresses; Europe -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses; Asia -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.; Comparative studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity / Patrick Olivelle; title: Epicurus' role in controversies on asceticism in European religious history / Ulrich Berner; title: Aryan national religion(s) and the criticism of asceticism and quietism in the 19th and 20th century / Max Deeg; title: Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman; title: The Saiva devaluation of Pautta, and Saiva asceticism in pre-colonial Tamilakam / Peter Schalk; title: Imitatio Christi in Christian martyrdom and asceticism : a critical dialogue / Isabelle Kinnard; title: "The epitome of the ascetic life" : the controversy over self-mortification and ritual suicide as ascetic practices in East Asian Buddhism / Christoph Kleine; title: "I have chosen sickness" : the controversial function of sickness in early Christian ascetic practice / Andrew Crislip; title: "Gotami, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravada Buddhism / Ute Hüsken; title: Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger.