TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olivelle, Patrick
TI  - Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
SN  - 9789380601632
U1  - 294.5447 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - Asceticism -- Hinduism
KW  - Religion
N1  - Preface 1. Introduction to renunciation in the Hindu traditions 2. The Ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity 3. Village vs. wilderness: Ascetic ideals and the Hindu world 4. A definition of world renunciation 5. From feast to fast: food and the Indian Ascetic 6. The beast and the Ascetic: the wild in the Indian religious imagination 7. Deconstruction of the body in Indian Asceticism
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