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The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition - Couverture souple

Flood, Gavin

 
9780521604017: The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 052160401X ISBN 13 : 9780521604017
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052160401X
ISBN 13 
9780521604017
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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