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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative? | |
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| The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloise: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics | |
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| Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender | |
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| Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition | |
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| Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism | |
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| Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement | |
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| Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism | |
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| Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and "Double Creation" in Early Christianity | |
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| Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity | |
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| Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean | |
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| Asceticism - Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism | |
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| Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature | |
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| Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism | |
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| Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| The Founding of the New Laura | |
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| Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism | |
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| Mirabai as Wife and Yogi | |
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| Understanding Asceticism - Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church | |
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| Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks | |
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| Asceticism and the Compensations of Art | |
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| Sensuality and Mysticism - The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures | |
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| Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text | |
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| Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective | |
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| Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Sri Vaisnava Community | |
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| Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation | |
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| Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time | |
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| The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers | |
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| The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response | |
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| The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism | |
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| The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing | |
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| Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism | |
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| A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism | |
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| Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism | |
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| Flagellation and the French Counter-Reformation: Asceticism, Social Discipline, and the Evolution of a Penitential Culture | |
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| Practices and Meanings of Asceticism in Contemporary Religious Life and Culture: A Panel Discussion | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |