LEADER 05092oam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910777556303321 005 20231017221429.0 010 $a0-19-773827-3 010 $a1-280-48232-X 010 $a0-19-803451-2 010 $a1-4237-6307-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460471 035 $a(EBL)281007 035 $a(OCoLC)476025307 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106309 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125153 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106309 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10106133 035 $a(PQKB)11786349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL281007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142393 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL48232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281007 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460471 100 $a19940505d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAsceticism /$fedited by Vincent L. Wimbush, Richard Valantasis ; with the assistance of Gay L. Byron, William S. Love 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (xxxiii, 638 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aEssays originally presented at an international conference held at Union Theological Seminary in New York City in April, 1993. 311 0 $a0-19-515138-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 607-621) and index. 327 $aContents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?; 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of He?loi?se: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics; 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 327 $a7 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; 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 327 $a15 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; 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 327 $a24 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; 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 S?ri Vaisnava Community 327 $a32 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; 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response; Appendix: Ascetica Miscellanea; 36 The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism; 37 The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing; 38 Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism; 39 A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism; 40 Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism 330 $aFrom 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, this book examines the ascetic impulse. 606 $aAsceticism$vCongresses 606 $aChristian life$vCongresses 615 0$aAsceticism 615 0$aChristian life 676 $a291.4/47 701 $aWimbush$b Vincent L$01529168 701 $aValantasis$b Richard$f1946-$01113344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777556303321 996 $aAsceticism$93824318 997 $aUNINA