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The Ascetic Self

Paperback • 2004 • English

The Ascetic Self

By Gavin D. Flood

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About the book

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 affirm...Show more

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9780521604017

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

The Ascetic Self

Format

Paperback

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