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020 $a9780195307917 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBL625$b.A838 2006
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245 00 $aAscetism and its critics :$bhistorical accounts and comparative perspectives /$cedited by Oliver Freiberger.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
263 $a0609
300 $ap. cm.
440 0 $aAmerican Academy of Religion cultural criticism series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity / Patrick Olivelle -- Epicurus' role in controversies on asceticism in European religious history / Ulrich Berner -- Aryan national religion(s) and the criticism of asceticism and quietism in the 19th and 20th century / Max Deeg -- Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman -- The Saiva devaluation of Pautta, and Saiva asceticism in pre-colonial Tamilakam / Peter Schalk -- Imitatio Christi in Christian martyrdom and asceticism : a critical dialogue / Isabelle Kinnard -- "The epitome of the ascetic life" : the controversy over self-mortification and ritual suicide as ascetic practices in East Asian Buddhism / Christoph Kleine -- "I have chosen sickness" : the controversial function of sickness in early Christian ascetic practice / Andrew Crislip -- "Gotami, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravada Buddhism / Ute Hüsken -- Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger.
650 0 $aAsceticism$xHistory$vCongresses.
650 0 $aAsceticism$vComparative studies$vCongresses.
651 0 $aAsia$xReligious life and customs$vCongresses.
650 0 $aEurope$xReligious life and customs$vCongresses.
700 1 $aFreiberger, Oliver.