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182 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521681544
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01 July 2009
Description
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and M...
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182 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521681544
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01 July 2009
Description
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and M...