9780195085358 - Asceticism (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing. Areas of discoloration to cloth boards and spine. Edge wear with some dings to edges. Edge wear, soft creasing to spine tips/joints. Half inch cloth pull and fray from spine head. Bottom corners bumped. Internally clean and unmarked. Fore edge bend to pages 359-407. Light wear, soil, to text block edges. Shelf 5d.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Crown and foot of spine and top corners are gently bumped. Cover is neat and clean. Intermittent spotting to fore-edge. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean, and bright, a few marginal pencil annotations and underlining from former owner (a professor of early Christianity) but otherwise neat. Signed and inscribed by editor Richard Valantasis. Oxford University Press. Copyright page dated 1995.A very nice copy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. Richard Valantasis, editor.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Large Octavo, 638 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor general shelf wear. Textblock sunken. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Mild wear to fore and bottom edges of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in World Religions. 1383118. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 672 pp. Ex-library with stamp and lending slip, scant marginalia, binding loosening slightly, sharp and clean otherwise.

Original cloth. Condition: Sehr gut. XXXIII, 638 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slight staining on edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Leichte Anschmutzung auf Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Foreword, John Hick -- Introduction, Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis -- I. General Challenges and Reconsiderations -- 1. The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?, Kallistos Ware -- 2. The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics, Edith Wyschogrod -- II. Origins and Meanings of Asceticism -- 3. Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender, Gillian Clark -- 4. Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition, Samuel Rubenson -- 5. Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Bernard McGinn -- 6. Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Teresa M. Shaw -- 7. Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism, John M. Dillon -- 8. Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement, J. Duncan M. Derrett -- 9. Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism, Robert A. F. Thurman -- 10. Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Gail P. Corrington-Streete -- III. Hermeneutics of Asceticism -- 11. Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and Double Creation in Early Christianity, Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- 12. Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity, Averil Cameron -- 13. Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean, Bruce J. Malina -- 14. AsceticismAudience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Elizabeth A. Castelli -- 15. Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism, Patrick Olivelle -- 16. Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature, John Pinsent -- 17. Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism, Sidney H. Griffith -- 18. Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Leif E. Vaage -- IV. Aesthetics of Asceticism -- 19. The Founding of the New Laura, Yizhar Hirschfeld -- 20. Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism, Patricia Cox Miller -- 21. Mirabai as Wife and Yogi, John Stratton Hawley -- 22. Understanding AsceticismTesting a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Walter O. Kaelber -- 23. The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church, Ephraim Isaac -- 24. Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks, Gregory Collins -- 25. Asceticism and the Compensations of Art, Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- 26. Sensuality and MysticismThe Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Peter J. Awn -- V. Politics of Asceticism -- 27. Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures, J. Giles Milhaven -- 28. Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text, Pedwa Malti-Douglas -- 29. Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective, 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, Vasudha Narayanan -- 32. Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation, Daniel Boyarin -- 33. Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time, Charles Kannengiesser -- 34. The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers, Dianne M. Bazell -- VI. The Discourse Refracted -- 35. The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response, Elizabeth A. Clark -- Appendix Ascetica Miscellanea -- 36. The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism, Jason Beduhn -- 37. The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing, Verna E. F. Flarrison -- 38. Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism, Michael L. Satlow -- 39. A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism, Richard Valantasis -- 40. Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism, William C. Bushell -- 41. Flagellation and the French Counter-Reformation: Asceticism, Social Discipline, and the Evolution of a Penitential Culture, Ann W. Ramsey -- 42. Practices and Meanings of Asceticism in Contemporary Religious Life and Culture: A Panel Discussion, Moderator: Richard Valantasis Panel: Paul Julian, Gillian Lindt, Elaine H. Pagels, Peter H. Van Ness, Ehsan Yarshater. ISBN 9780195085358 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1513.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 638 pp. Gray cloth. Near Fine. Small spot of wear to bottom edge of rear board.