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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 437 ratings — published 1988
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 520 ratings — published 1952
The New Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 234 ratings — published
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,445 ratings — published 1983
The Making of the Self: 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 4.50 — 6 ratings — published
The Mystic Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.10 — 10 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 — 8,818 ratings — published 2009
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Middle Age Series)
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avg rating 3.88 — 40 ratings — published 1998
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 67,463 ratings — published 1996
The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,277 ratings — published 2019
They Speak by Silences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.74 — 61 ratings — published 1955
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 4.24 — 33 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 ... Zur Umwelt Des) (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 4.49 — 310 ratings — published 1980
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 495 ratings — published 2020
Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 38 ratings — published 2006
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,511 ratings — published 2024
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 302 ratings — published 2018
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 575 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 4.43 — 14 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 3.60 — 15 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 4.39 — 392 ratings — published 2013
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,546 ratings — published 1618
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 91 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 — 103 ratings — published 2000
The Philokalia, Volume 2: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 354 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 3.75 — 240 ratings — published 2022
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,179 ratings — published 1998
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,612 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 4.68 — 94 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
“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.”
― The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
― The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
“The Gallos had always kept a frugal household, and it hadn’t been until Tony went abroad that he realised that what he had always taken to be middle class was really, by any global standard, rich. The revelation had produced in him not relief or gratitude, but a new and deeply unpleasant sense of his own complicity, for Grandpa Gallo's legacy--a fortune he had never known existed, let alone expected to receive--had left him suddenly much wealthier than any of his friends. He had never mentioned the bequest to anyone; instead, he practised inconspicuous consumption, and began to cultivate a shabby hand-me-down appearance as a way of implying to everyone around him that, like them, he was only barely scraping by. It was partly to atone for this deception, and partly in continuation of it, that he had turned to journalism; having pretended for so long that the asceticism of his lifestyle was a sacrifice he had no other option but to make, he now felt an almost desperate desire to earn an income from his writing, and thereby prove in concrete terms that his life’s project, the expansion of his mind, was more than what he feared it might be--merely a form of inauthentic tourism financed, hypocritically, by those very social and economic structures that he claimed so energetically to oppose.”
― Birnam Wood
― Birnam Wood
