The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism by Richard Valantasis
The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism
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Richard Valantasis
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The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism

Richard Valantasis

336 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gosp...

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