Asceticism and its critics : historical accounts and comparative perspectives
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Asceticism and its critics : historical accounts and comparative perspectives
（American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series）
Oxford University Press, 2006
- : cloth
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Contents of Works
- 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