| Description |
xxxiii, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-621) and index. |
| Contents |
late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / McGinn, Bernard -- Practical, theoretical, and cultural tracings in late ancient asceticism / Teresa M. Shaw -- Rejecting the body, refining the body: some remarks on the development of Platonist asceticism / John M. Dillon -- Primitive Christianity as an ascetic movement / J. Duncan M. Derrett -- Tibetan Buddhist perspectives on |
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asceticism / Robert A. F. Thurman -- Trajectories of ascetic behavior / Gail P. Corrington-Streete -- Asceticism and anthropology: enkrateia and double creation in early Christianity / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- Ascetic closure and the end of antiquity / Averil Cameron -- Pain, power, and personhood: ascetic behavior in the ancient Mediterranean / Bruce J. Malina |
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-- Asceticism--audience and resistance / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Deconstruction of the body in Indian asceticism / Patrick Olivelle -- Ascetic moods in Greek and Latin literature / John Pinsent -- Asceticism in the Church of Syria: the hermeneutics of early Syrian monasticism / Sidney H. Griffith -- Ascetic moods, hermeneutics, and bodily deconstruction / Leif E. Vaage |
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Middle-Byzantine monks / Gregory Collins -- Asceticism and the compensations of art / Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- Sensuality and mysticism--the Islamic tradition / Peter J. Awn -- Asceticism and the moral good / J. Giles Milhaven -- Gender and uses of the ascetic in an Islamist text / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in historical perspective |
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/ Robert L. Wilken -- Toward a politics of asceticism / William E. Deal -- Renunciation and gender issues in the Śrī Vaiṡṅava community / Vasudha Narayanan -- Body politic among the brides of Christ: Paul and the origins of Christian sexual renunciation / Daniel Boyarin -- Athanasius of Alexandria and the ascetic movement of his time / Charles Kannengiesser -- The |
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politics of piety / Dianne M. Bazell -- The ascetic impulse in religious life / Elizabeth A. Clark -- The battle for the body in Manichaean asceticism / Jason Beduhn -- The allegorization of gender: Plato and Philo on spiritual childbearing / Verna E. F. Harrison -- Shame and sex in late antique Judaism / Michael L. Satlow -- A theory of the social function of asceticism |
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/ Richard Valantasis -- Psychophysiological and comparative analysis of ascetico-meditational discipline / William C. Bushell -- flagellation and the French counter-Reformation / Ann W. Ramsey penitential culture / Ann W. Ramsey |
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Way of the ascetics: negative or affirmative? / Kallistos Ware -- Howl of Oedipus, the cry of Héloïse: from asceticism to postmodern ethics / Edith Wyschogrod -- Women and asceticism in late antiquity: the refusal of status and gender / Gillian Clark -- Christian asceticism and the emergence of the monastic tradition / Samuel Rubenson -- Asceticism and mysticism in |
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-- Founding of the New Laura / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Dreaming the body / Patricia Cox Miller -- Mirabai as wife and yogi / John Stratton Hawley -- Understanding asceticism / Walter O. Kaelber -- Significance of food in Hebraic-African thought and the role of fasting in the Ethiopian church / Ephraim Isaac -- Simeon the new theologian: an ascetical theology for |
| Subject |
Asceticism -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Wimbush, Vincent L.
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Valantasis, Richard, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0195085353 alkaline paper |
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