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
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