Asceticism

The Catholic Historical Review | April 1, 1997| | Copyright

Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. Pp. xxiii, 638. $125.00.)

This monumental collection of essays adds new weight to the evidence for a surprisingly vigorous and growing interest in religious asceticism. Our age in western culture, and particularly in North America, has seemed quite tone-deaf to the ascetic.Yet these essays suggest not only a new and serious intellectual curiosity about ascetic phenomena in other times and places, but even the emergence of individuals and small groups in diverse corners of our own ...

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