The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
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Book
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ISBN 10
052160401X
ISBN 13
9780521604017
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Publication Year
2005
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Pages
304
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Description
Focusing on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, this book argues that asceticism must be understood within the boundaries of tradition. It exemplifies a completely new paradigm for comparative religion which seeks to avoid a problematic universalism on the one hand and an area-specific relativism on the other. The volume's original contribution to methodology will be influential in the future development of comparative religious studies. - from Amzon
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