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Asceticism on the Web
(in progress)

some themes to explore for 
the conference on 
Asceticism and Power in 
the Asian Context

 

Definitions of asceticism 

in the Catholic Encyclopaedia
in Encyclopaedia Britannica
in Roget's Thesaurus

Max Weber on The Rejection and the Meaning of the World and on Sociology of World Religions; Asceticism in the Protestant Ethic and the rise of capitalism and in Weber's idea of this-worldly asceticism

William James' Lecture XI, XII, XIII: Saintliness and Lecture XIV and XV: THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS from The Varieties of Religious Experience

Asceticism and crisis

Susan Ashbrook Harvey . Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, XVIII

Asceticism in relation to contemporary life

Asceticism and the Electronic Media: Technophilia and Technophobia in the Perspective of Christian Philosophy. Hugh MacDonald.

Ecology and Asceticism  by Metropolitan John of Pergamon

Regional

Middle East

Egyptian and Syrian Asceticism in Late Antiquity: A Comparative Study of the Ascetic Idea in the Late Roman Empire during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries  Jeffrey Conrad.

India

Meredith Springer on Jainism 

William R. Pinch. Subaltern Sadhus? Political Asceticism in Indian Myth, Memory, and History

Tim Lubin's home page - Ascetical Practices and the Brahmanical Householder
http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint

J. Patrick Olivelle's publications on asceticism in India

China 

Barend Ter Haar on Falun Gong

Stephen Eskildsen on Taoism

Burma

Gustaaf Houtman on Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy

Thailand    

MARJA-LEENA HEIKKILÄ-HORN on Santi Asoke and Dhammakaya    

Bibliography

Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India : Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery/Kenneth G. Zysk. Vedams Books International, 1998.

Bibliography of asceticism in classical Indology

Vaage, Leif E., and Vincent L. Wimbush (eds). Asceticism and the New Testament. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Asceticism at Amazon Books

Asceticism in print and asceticism out of print at Barnes & Noble