The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. Providing a broad historical and comparative perspective, contributions by more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines explore asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. An incomparable ...
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The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. Providing a broad historical and comparative perspective, contributions by more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines explore asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. An incomparable reference, Asceticism offers a model for an understanding of a most important dimension of religious life.
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