In the middle of a muggy summer in southern Indiana, with daytime temperatures near or over 100 degrees, it is hot on our little organic vegetable farm in the Ohio River valley. And although we have ...

Asceticism. Does this word conjure up an image in your mind of a hermit retreating to the desert, wearing a hair shirt and doing penance with a medieval flagellant? If so, your spiritual imagination ...

Whether giving up chocolate for Lent, taking a break from social media or abstaining from sex, asceticism can come in many forms. "Asceticism is any sort of bodily discipline for a spiritual or ...

Introduction : encountering the monastery -- In search of "Drunken Peacocks" : mapping monastic histories from forest to state -- Inscribing asceticism : epigraphic practices and the materiality of ...