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Asceticism Books
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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 422 ratings — published 1988
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 501 ratings — published 1952
The New Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 221 ratings — published
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,432 ratings — published 1983
Making of the Self, The: Ancient and Modern Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2008
Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Mystic Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Clothed in the Body: Asceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era (Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 8,674 ratings — published 2009
The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
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avg rating 3.91 — 64 ratings — published 2003
St. John of the Cross for Beginners: A Commentary on The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night of the Soul (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published 2014
The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (Studien und Texte zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 78)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2013
Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: Reception and Use of New Testament Texts in Ancient Christian Ascetic Discourses (Novum Testamentum Et ... Testaments) (English and German Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
Conversation With Christ: The Teaching of St. Teresa of Avila About Personal Prayer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 298 ratings — published 1980
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 451 ratings — published 2020
Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 36 ratings — published 2006
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 1,378 ratings — published 2024
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 294 ratings — published 2018
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 439 ratings — published 2024
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
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avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well (Global Perspectives on Aging)
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avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 8)
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avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 1996
John of Avila: Audi, filia - Listen, O Daughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 27 ratings — published 2006
Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 378 ratings — published 2013
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,528 ratings — published 1618
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 88 ratings — published
Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
In Quest of Beauty (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Encyclopedia of Monasticism: 2 volume set (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 101 ratings — published 2000
The Philokalia, Volume 2: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 347 ratings — published 1982
Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published
Abba Isaiah Of Scetis: Ascetic Discourses (Cistercian Studies Series, #150)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001
The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 23 ratings — published 1998
Letters and Asceticism in Fourth-Century Egypt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
The Gospel of Thomas (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published 1997
The New Q (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2005
Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published
Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 1978
Reading Renunciation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 1999
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2005
Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 221 ratings — published 2022
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,141 ratings — published 1998
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,522 ratings — published 1975
Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1990
How to Live a Holy Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 91 ratings — published 2005
Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2021
Milarepa (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.21 — 3,346 ratings — published 1997
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Serpent of Paradise: The Story of an Indian Pilgrimage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1963
“Whether he feels guilty with regard to the loved being, or whether he seeks to impress that being by representing his unhappiness, the amorous subject outlines an ascetic behavior of self-punishment (in life style, dress, etc.).
Since I am guilty of this, of that (I have—I assign myself—a thousand reasons for being so), I shall punish myself, I shall chasten my body: cut my hair very short, conceal my eyes behind dark glasses (a way of taking the veil), devote myself to the study of some serious and abstract branch of learning. I shall get up early and work while it is still dark outside, like a monk. I shall be very patient, a little sad, in a word, worthy, as suits a man of resentment. I shall (hysterically) signify my mourning (the mourning which I assign myself) in my dress, my haircut, the regularity of my habits. This will be a gentle retreat; just that slight degree of retreat necessary to the proper functioning of a discrete pathos.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Since I am guilty of this, of that (I have—I assign myself—a thousand reasons for being so), I shall punish myself, I shall chasten my body: cut my hair very short, conceal my eyes behind dark glasses (a way of taking the veil), devote myself to the study of some serious and abstract branch of learning. I shall get up early and work while it is still dark outside, like a monk. I shall be very patient, a little sad, in a word, worthy, as suits a man of resentment. I shall (hysterically) signify my mourning (the mourning which I assign myself) in my dress, my haircut, the regularity of my habits. This will be a gentle retreat; just that slight degree of retreat necessary to the proper functioning of a discrete pathos.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“We shall see clearly that it is greater to despise the world than to have it at one's command; that it is infinitely preferable to submit to the humblest of men for God's sake, than to command kings and princes; that an humble knowledge of ourselves surpasses the deepest sciences; in short, that greater praise is due to him who curbs his passions on the most trivial occasions, than to him who conquers the strongest cities, defeats entire armies, or even works miracles and raises the dead to life.”
― The Spiritual Combat and A Treatise on Peace of the Soul
― The Spiritual Combat and A Treatise on Peace of the Soul
