Asceticism and Its Critics: Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives (AAR Cultural Criticism Series) edited by Oliver Freiberger
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Overview: Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life– the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification –as the ultimate form of a true religious quest.
This view is rooted in hagiographic descriptions of prominent ascetics and in other literary accounts that praise the ascetic life-style. Scholars have often overlooked, however, that in the history of religions ascetic beliefs and practices have also been strongly criticized, by followers of the same religious tradition as well as by outsiders. The respective sources provide sufficient evidence of such critical strands but surprisingly as yet no attempt has been made to analyze this criticism of asceticism systematically.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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Overview: Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life– the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification –as the ultimate form of a true religious quest.
This view is rooted in hagiographic descriptions of prominent ascetics and in other literary accounts that praise the ascetic life-style. Scholars have often overlooked, however, that in the history of religions ascetic beliefs and practices have also been strongly criticized, by followers of the same religious tradition as well as by outsiders. The respective sources provide sufficient evidence of such critical strands but surprisingly as yet no attempt has been made to analyze this criticism of asceticism systematically.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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