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Language: en
Pages: 260
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Language: en
Pages: 290
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press
Explores the Weberian theme of religious asceticism in the context of medieval religion, concentrating on the Cathars and Waldensians in southern France. Analyz
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-04 - Publisher: BRILL
This book presents an early modern Jesuit attitude towards Hindu and Ethiopian strains of asceticism. The Jesuits’ descriptions of both the yogis and the Ethi
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