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Asceticism /
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 General Challenges and Reconsiderations
- 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?
- 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics
- Part 2 Origins and Meanings of Asceticism
- 3 Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender
- 4 Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition
- 5 Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
- 6 Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- 7 Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism
- 8 Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement
- 9 Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism
- 10 Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- Part 3 Hermeneutics of Asceticism
- 11 Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and ""Double Creation"" in Early Christianity
- 12 Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity.
- 13 Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean
- 14 Asceticism-Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- 15 Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism
- 16 Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature
- 17 Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism
- 18 Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- Part 4 Aesthetics of Asceticism
- 19 The Founding of the New Laura
- 20 Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism.
- 21 Mirabai as Wife and Yogi
- 22 Understanding Asceticism-Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- 23 The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church
- 24 Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks
- 25 Asceticism and the Compensations of Art
- 26 Sensuality and Mysticism-The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- Part 5 Politics of Asceticism
- 27 Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures
- 28 Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text.
- 29 Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective
- 30 Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- 31 Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Śri Vaisnava Community
- 32 Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation
- 33 Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time
- 34 The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
- Part 6 The Discourse Refracted
- 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response
- Appendix: Ascetica Miscellanea.