Ascetic Self

Name: Ascetic Self
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

Autor: Gavin Flood

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press

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This 2004 book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and H...

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Autor

Gavin Flood

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2004

Stránek

304

EAN

9780521843386

ISBN

0521843383

Enbook ID

02046577

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 21

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This 2004 book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims 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. Such a performance contains an ambiguity or distance between the general intention to eradicate the will, or in some sense to erase the self, and the affirmation of will in ascetic performance such as weakening the body through fasting. Asceticism must therefore be seen in the context of ritual. The book also offers a paradigm for comparative religion more generally, one that avoids the inadequate choices of either examining religions through overarching categories on the one hand and the abandoning of any comparative endeavour that focuses purely on area-specific study on the other.

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