The asceticism of work: Simone Weil -- The asceticism of action the Bhagavad-gītā and Yoga-sūtras -- The asceticism of action: tantra -- The asceticism of the middle way -- The asceticism of the desert -- The asceticism of love and wisdom -- The ritual formation of the ascetic self -- The ascetic self and modernity
Summary
Gavin Flood argues that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition
