ISBN: 9780521843386

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], Short description/annotation A new approach to comparing religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism), focusing on traditions of asce… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], Short description/annotation A new approach to comparing religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism), focusing on traditions of asceticism. Main description 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. Table of contents: 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. 302 pages Versandfertig in 3-5 Tagen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

ISBN: 9780521843386

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], Short description/annotation A new approach to comparing religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism), focusing on traditions of asce… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], Short description/annotation A new approach to comparing religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism), focusing on traditions of asceticism. Main description 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. Table of contents: 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. 302 pages Versandfertig in 3-5 Tagen, DE, Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

2005, ISBN: 0521843383

[EAN: 9780521843386], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Cambridge University Press], RELIGION / COMPARATIVE, Druck auf Anfrage Neuware -Focusing on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, this book a… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780521843386], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Cambridge University Press], RELIGION / COMPARATIVE, Druck auf Anfrage Neuware -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. 304 pp. Englisch, Books<

ISBN: 9780521843386

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 compa… Mehr…

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. Books List_Books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780521843386

Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2004