TY - BOOK AU - Freiberger,Oliver TI - Asceticism and its critics: historical accounts and comparative perspectives SN - 0195307917 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BL 625 .A838 2006 U1 - 204 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Asceticism KW - Comparative studies KW - Congresses KW - History KW - Asia KW - Religious life and customs KW - Europe N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005035879.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2005035879-d.html ER -