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Cambridge University Press The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

Name: The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
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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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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 052160401X
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Comparative Religion
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 September 2010
Listed Since: 10 December 2006

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