Title The ascetic self : subjectivity, memory, and tradition / Gavin Flood.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The asceticism of work: Simone Weil -- The asceticism of action the Bhagavad-gītā and Yoga-sūtras -- The asceticism of action: tantra -- The asceticism of the middle way -- The asceticism of the desert -- The asceticism of love and wisdom -- The ritual formation of the ascetic self -- The ascetic self and modernity.
Summary	Gavin Flood argues 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 perfomance of the memory of tradition.
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Subject	Asceticism -- Comparative studies.
	Asceticism.
Genre/Form	Comparative studies.
Subject	Asceticism -- Psychology.
	Psychology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Flood, Gavin D., 1954- Ascetic self. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004045732
ISBN	0511264984 (electronic book)
	9780511264986 (electronic book)
	9780511265709 (electronic book)
	0511265700 (electronic book)
	0511263414
	9780511263415
	0521843383 (Cloth)
	052160401X (Paper)