Wondering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel ...
 Author: Maribel Dietz Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 263.04109015 EAN: 9780271026770 ISBN: 0271026774 Number Of Pages: 270 Publication Date: 2005-07-08 [... more]
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Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life
Shocking, Beautiful and Really Well Written: There is no doubt that Kathryn Harrison can hold a readers attention in the palm of her hand like no other author out there. Her previous work, "The Seal Wife", "The Binding Chair", " [... more]
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Barlaam and Ioasaph
The Great Classic of Eastern Christanity: Each of the major Christian traditions may be said to have a classic that expresses it's spirit in words. For Catholicism, Dante's "Divine Comedy" can arguably be said to be the greatest literary work [... more]
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The Heart of Karate-Do
Thought Japanese Karate had No High Kicks?: Think again! But for the pioneering spirit of Shigeru Egami...Egami pioneered certain flexability and strength exercises that are demonstrated in this book. Included are several kicking exercises which are [... more]
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Home and Exile
From Amazon.com: Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his [... more]
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Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection
Blend of the ascetic and pastoral is top fare: Walter Hilton's massive undertaking (the first thorough treatment of ascetic theology in the English language) is as rewarding for those today as in his own era - and a careful reading makes one realise that [... more]
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The Birth of Venus: A Novel
From Amazon.co.uk: The Birth of Venus is all the more fascinating a historical novel for the author's inability to make up her mind what it is about. Is it a novel about the limited choices available to a woman with talent in Renaissance Florence-- [... more]
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Masks Of God 02 Oriental Mythology
The Inscrutable Orient is Explained: In this second volume of the "Mask" Trilogy, Campbell has moved from the perhistorical to historical. There is and has always been a great divide between the Occident and the Orient on matters of faith and [... more]
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Wittgenstein and the Mystical: Philosophy As an Ascetic ...
Author: Frederick Sontag Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 192 EAN: 9781555409937 ISBN: 1555409938 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: 1995-10 [... more]
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Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 291.4470901 EAN: 9780800631055 ISBN: 0800631056 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: 2008-11-01 [... more]
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Abba Isaiah of Scetis: Ascetic Discourses
Author: Isaiah Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 248.8942 EAN: 9780879077501 ISBN: 0879077506 Number Of Pages: 282 Publication Date: 2006-06 [... more]
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Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus
Excellent book but why so expensive?: This is a valuable, fascinating book on an undeservedly obscure figure. Evagrius has been vastly influential in Western Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Sufism, and the Syriac and Ethiopic Churches. And [... more]
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