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The Ascetic Self

Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

by Gavin Flood (university Of Stirling)

  • Hardback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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This 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 new 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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  • Author

    Gavin Flood (university Of Stirling)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2004

  • Weight

    618g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521843386

  • ISBN-10

    0521843383

  • Eden Code

    1226205

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