{"product_id":"ascetic-culture-renunciation-and-worldly-engagement-9789004114128","title":"Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book was entirely conceived and developed by K. Ishwaran. The original concept was to combine two of Ishwaran’s major interests: comparative studies of the monastic systems of South Asia, and criticism of Western anthropological and sociological assumptions of tradition and modernity being antithetical, especially with regard to traditional religions. Later he conceived of broadening this topic by including major religious traditions around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJORDAN PAPER, Introduction: Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Wordly Engagement   S.A. NIGOSIAN, Zoroastrian Perception of Ascetic Culture  ALAN DAVIES, Tradition and Modernity in Protestant Christianity  BALKRISHNA G. GOKHALE, Theravada Buddhism and Modernization: Anagarika Dhammapala and B.R. Ambedkar  JORDAN PAPER, Eremitism in China  EARLE H. WAUGH, “Dead Men in Sultry Darkness”: Western Theory and the Problematic of a Baseline Cultural Motif in Islamic Ascetic Tradition   DANIEL GOLD, Nath Yogis as Established Alternatives: Householders and Ascetics Today  JOHN E. CORT, The Gift of Food to a Wandering Cow: Lay-Mendicant Interaction Among the Jains  DAVID MILLER, Modernity in Hindu Monasticism: Swami Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna Movement  KLAUS K. KLOSTERMAIER, Gaudya Vaisnavism: The Education of Human Emotions   SHAMAN HATLEY AND SOHAIL INAYATULLAH, Karma Samnyāsa: Sarkar’s Reconceptualization of Indian Asceticism  Contributors  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210593395031,"sku":"9789004114128","price":66.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ascetic-culture-renunciation-and-worldly-engagement-9789004114128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}