Asceticism |
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| Editor:
| Wimbush, Vincent L.
Valantasis, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-515138-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2002 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. Providing a broad historical and comparative perspective, contributions by more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines explore asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North...
More DescriptionThe only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. Providing a broad historical and comparative perspective, contributions by more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines explore asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. An incomparable reference, Asceticism offers a model for an understanding of a most important dimension of religious life.