The ascetic self : subjectivity, memory, and tradition /

Gavin Flood argues that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flood, Gavin D., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Asceticism > Comparative studies.
Asceticism > Psychology.
Ascétisme > Études comparatives.
Ascétisme > Psychologie.
RELIGION > Inspirational.
SELF-HELP > Spiritual.
Asceticism.
Identitätsfindung
Askese
Spiritualität
Ascetisme.
Hindoeïsme.
Boeddhisme.
Christendom.
Ascétisme > Histoire.
Ascétisme.
Comparative studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The asceticism of work: Simone Weil
  • The asceticism of action the Bhagavad-gītā and Yoga-sūtras
  • The asceticism of action: tantra
  • The asceticism of the middle way
  • The asceticism of the desert
  • The asceticism of love and wisdom
  • The ritual formation of the ascetic self
  • The ascetic self and modernity.

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