Ascetic Culture : : Renunciation and Worldly Engagement / / edited by K. Ishwaran.
The collection of papers in Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement was entirely conceived and developed by K. Ishwaran, who died in June 1998. The original concept was to focus on "Tradition and Innovation in Monastic Life in South Asia", a topic which combined two of Ishwara...
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| Superior document: | International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 73 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : Brill,, 1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ;
73. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Online. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Editor: K. Ishwaran
- Introduction: Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Wordly Engagement / Jordan Paper
- Zoroastrian Perception of Ascetic Culture / S.A. Nigosian
- Tradition and Modernity in Protestant Christianity / Alan Davies
- Theravada Buddhism and Modernization / Balkrishna Govind Gokhale
- Eremitism in China / Jordan Paper
- "Dead Men in Sultry Darkness" / Earle H. Waugh
- Nath Yogis as Established Alternatives: Householders and Ascetics Today / Daniel Gold
- The Gift of Food to a Wandering Cow: Lay-Mendicant Interaction Among the Jains / John E. Cort
- Modernity in Hindu Monasticism: Swami Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna Movement / David Miller
- Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism: The Education of Human Emotions / Klaus K. Klostermaier
- Karma Saṃnyāsa: Sarkar's Reconceptualization of Indian Asceticism / Shaman Hatley and Sohail Inayatullah
- Contributors / Editor: K. Ishwaran
- Index / Editor: K. Ishwaran
- International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology / Editor: S. Ishwaran.