The Ascetic Self
Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
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- Author: Gavin Flood, University of Stirling
- Date Published: January 2005
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- isbn: 9780521604017
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Focusing on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, this book argues that asceticism must be understood within the boundaries of tradition. It exemplifies a completely new paradigm for comparative religion which seeks to avoid a problematic universalism on the one hand and an area-specific relativism on the other. The volume's original contribution to methodology will be influential in the future development of comparative religious studies.
Read more- Gavin Flood's novel approach should change the direction of how comparative religion is studied in the future - it applies to all areas, not just asceticism
- Suggests possible ways of avoiding problematic universalism on the one hand and area-specific relativism on the other
- Looks at asceticism as performed tradition, as ritual, and as at once effacing and affirming the will of the practitioner
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- Date Published: January 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521604017
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Setting the parameters
Part I. The Ascetic Self in Text and History:
2. The asceticism of work: Simone Weil
3. The asceticism of action: The Bhagavad-gita and Yoga-sutras
4. The asceticism of action: Tantra
5. The asceticism of the Middle Way
6. The asceticism of the desert
7. The asceticism of love and wisdom
Part II. Theorising the Ascetic Self:
8. The ritual construction of the ascetic self
9. Modernity and the ascetic self.
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