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The Ascetic Self - Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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The Ascetic Self - Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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This 2004 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 affirmation
of will in ascetic performance such as weakening the body through
fasting. Asceticism must therefore be seen in the context of
ritual. The book also offers a paradigm for comparative religion
more generally, one that avoids the inadequate choices of either
examining religions through overarching categories on the one hand
and the abandoning of any comparative endeavour that focuses purely
on area-specific study on the other.
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