The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

By Gavin Flood

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052160401X
• ISBN13: 9780521604017
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"