Gavin D. Flood

The Ascetic Self

Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521604017
• ISBN-10: 052160401X
• Artikelnr.: 21393776

Autorenporträt

Gavin Flood is Professor of Religion at the University of Stirling, and the author of An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

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.