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Asceticism and its critics : historical accounts and comparative perspectives / edited by Oliver Freiberger. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - x, 258 p. ; 25 cm. - American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series .

Includes bibliographical references.

The 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 nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Max Deeg -- Disciplining the body, disciplining the will : hypocrisy and asceticism in Cistercian monasticism / Martha G. Newman -- The Caiva devaluation of Pautta and Caiṉa asceticism in precolonial Tamiḻakam / 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 -- "Gotamī, do not wish to go from home to homelessness!" : patterns of objections to female asceticism in Theravāda Buddhism / Ute Hüsken -- Early Buddhism, asceticism, and the politics of the Middle Way / Oliver Freiberger.

ISBN: 0195307917 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195307917 (cloth : alk. paper)

Standard No.: 9780195307917

LCCN: 2005035879

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Asceticism--Comparative studies--Congresses.
Asceticism--History--Congresses.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Europe--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: BL 625 / .A838 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 204 / F881a