Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian …
"Christian asceticism is deeply imbricated in both the power of self-transformation and the divine grace through which it is realized. This study seeks to explore the strategies that enabled ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity to a…
"Christian asceticism is deeply imbricated in both the power of self-transformation and the divine grace through which it is realized. This study seeks to explore the strategies that enabled ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity to a…
Eating in the wilderness -- Food in the ordered city -- Secularizing diet -- Fasting by choice -- Clean and unclean animals -- Community, heresy, and orthodoxy -- Sacrifice and slaughter -- Christian food, heavenly food, worldly food -- Concluding reflections.
Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-incre…
"The book examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these writings from within their own theological perspectives, Dr. Behr also offers a theological critique of the prevailing approach to the asceticism of Late Antiquity.…