The sacred body : asceticism in religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper.

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xxi, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A sunlit landscape amid the night of nonbeing -- The soul as sacred space -- The body, sacred and profane -- The word and the body -- Asceticism as a way of love, with a modern excursus -- Asceticism, imposed and recovered : Velázquez, Martha, and the eyes of faith -- The eucharistic body in literature and modern experience : George Herbert and Simone Weil -- Holiness and the resurrection body : Meister Eckhart and James Joyce -- Romanticism and the recovery of the sacred in language -- The possibility of a contemporary theology.