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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v37.i32.records.utf8:12096531:1680
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01680nam a2200277 a 4500
001 2009280337
003 DLC
005 20090807112603.0
008 090729s2008 oru b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2009280337
020 $a9781556352867 (pbk.)
020 $a1556352867 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn231753426
040 $aDCU$cDCU$dIUL$dSLT$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBL625$b.V33 2008
100 1 $aValantasis, Richard,$d1946-
245 14 $aThe making of the self :$bancient and modern asceticism /$cRichard Valantasis.
260 $aEugene, Or. :$bCascade Books,$c2008.
300 $axxi, 314 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aBibliography : p. 299-314.
505 0 $aPart I. Theory: -- 1. A theory of the social function of asceticism -- 2. Constructions of power in asceticism -- 3. Asceticism as a sacred marriage: eastern and western theories -- 4. Asceticism or formation: theorizing asceticism after Nietzsche -- 5. A theory of asceticism, revised -- Part II. Christian Asceticism: -- 6. Uncovering Adam's esoteric body -- 7. Daemons and the perfecting of the monk's body -- 8. Ascetical withdrawal and the second letter of Basil the Great -- 9. Is the Gospel of Thomas ascetical? -- 10. Competing ascetic subjectivities in the letter to the Galatians -- Part III. Roman Asceticism: -- 11. Nag Hammadi and asceticism: theory and practice -- 12. Demons, adversaries, devils, fisherman: the asceticism of Authoritative Teaching (NHL, VI, 3) in Roman perspective -- 13. Musonius Rufus and Roman ascetical theory
650 0 $aAsceticism.
650 0 $aAsceticism$xHistory.
650 0 $aAsceticism$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 $aAscetics$zRome.