Asceticism

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1 General Challenges and Reconsiderations 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative? 3 Kallistos Ware 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloi`se: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics 16 Edith Wyschogrod Part 2 Origins and Meanings of Asceticism 3 Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender 33 Gillian Clark 4 Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition 49 Samuel Rubenson 5 Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 58 Bernard McGinn 6 Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 75 Teresa M. Shaw 7 Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism 80 John M. Dillon 8 Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement 88 J. Duncan M. Derrett 9 Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism 108 Robert A. f. Thurma 10 Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers Gail P. Corrington-Streete Part 3 Hermeneutics of Asceticism 11 Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and "Double Creation" in Early Christianity 127 Giulia Sfameni Gasparro 12 Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity 147 Averil Cameron 13 Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean BruceJ. Malina 14 Asceticism-Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 178 Elizabeth A. Castelli 15 Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 188 Patrick Olivelle 16 Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature 211 John Pinsent 17 Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism 220 Sidney H. Griffith 18 Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 246 Leif E. Vaage Part 4 Aesthetics of Asceticism 19 The Founding of the New Laura 267 Ytzhar Hirschfeld 20 Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism 281 Patricia Cox Miller 21 Mirabai as Wife and Yogi 301 John Stratton Hawley 22 Understanding Asceticism-Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 320 Walter O. Kaelber 23 The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church 329 Ephraim Isaac 24 Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks 343 Gregory Collins 25 Asceticism and the Compensations of Art 357 Geoffrey Gait Harpham 26 Sensuality and Mysticism-The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 369 Peter ]. Awn Part 5 Politics of Asceticism 27 Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures 375 J Giles Milhaven 28 Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text 395 Fedwa Malti-Douglas 29 Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective 412 Robert L. Wilken 30 Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers William E. Deal 31 Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Sri Vaisnava Community 443 Vasudha Narayanan 32 Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation 459 Daniel Boyarin 33 Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time 479 Charles Kannengiesser 34 The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 493 Dianne M. Bazell Part 6 The Discourse Refracted 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response 505 Elizabeth A. Clark Appendix Ascetica Miscellanea 36 The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism 513 Jason Beduhn 37 The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing Verna E. F. Harrison 38 Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism 535 Michael L. Sallo