Asceticism and Its Critics Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives (Aar Cultural Criticism Series) by Oliver Freiberger, editor - September 22, 2006

Condition: clean copy.
Content: Focusing on the critics of asceticism, their motives, their arguments, and the targets of their critique, these 10 studies provide a broad range of issues for comparison. They suggest that often the critique of asceticism is based on a worldview that differs and competes with the respective worldview, and demonstrate that examining the critics of asceticism helps to better understand the complexity of religious traditions and their cultural contexts.
258 pages.