Transdiagnostic effect of contamination disgust on asceticism [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction There is a growing literature suggesting disgust plays a major role in religiosity. Asceticism is a personality trait characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
Giovanni Castellini, Valdo Ricca
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Sweet Asceticism: An Ethnographic Study of Female Renouncers in the Chaitanya Vaiṣṇava Tradition
Religions, 2022 This paper is based on an ethnographic study which aims to examine female asceticism in the Chaitanya Vaishnava sect, a Hindu devotional school found in the region of Vrindavan in Northwest India.
Leena Taneja
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Asceticism as Renouncing and Embracing the World in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Radical Metaphysics
Religions, 2023 Asceticism or renunciation (zuhd) is generally viewed as turning away from the world and all it has to offer in order to connect to the divine. The well-known mystical theorist, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d.
Ismail
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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism
Genealogy, 2020 Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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Semantics of Worldly Life and Ascetic Life in the Thoughts of Hossein bin Saeed Ahwazi: A Review of the History of Shia Narrative Ethics in the Third Century [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2023 This article examined the relationship between worldly life and asceticism based on Hossein bin Saeed Ahwazi's book entitled "Al-Zohd" (asceticism). These two concepts were on opposite sides of meaning and their practical overlap could be hardly found ...
Abbas Mirzaei, NAZANIN AHMADI
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Schopenhauer’s Asceticism: A path to salvation [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2023 Asceticism has been one of the most important concepts in Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy, especially in his theory of salvation. He has defined salvation as releasing from pain and suffering and achieving long-term tranquility.
fatemeh bakhtiari +2 more
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Maria Magdalena i Provence: Tribal og post-aksial askese
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2021 The final episode in the legend of Mary Magdalene according to Legenda aurea is an example of extreme asceticism in a ‘historic (post-axial) religion’.
Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen
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And they All Ate and Were Satisfied: Review of the Book “Abundance and Asceticism in Russian Literature” [PDF]
Гуманитарный вектор, 2020 The review provides an overview of scientific works included in the collection of articles “Abundance and Asceticism in Russian Literature.” Based on the definitions of “asceticism” and “abundance” proposed by the authors, a parallel is drawn with the ...
Alena O. Zadorina
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FROM PAIN TO DELIGHT IN THE LEGEND ABOUT ST. ELIZABETH (COMPLEMENTARITY AND CONTRAST) [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 In addition to the motif of sexual abstinence and virginity, the dominant motif in Latin medieval legends is self-torture as an expression of an escape from the world and the suppression of corporeality.
Kristína Pavlovičová
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Ascetism: an endangered value? Mutations of ascetism in contemporary monasticism
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2011 This article seeks to understand the shifts which are affecting monastic asceticism in modern society. Is monastic asceticism really changing and in which terms? Why has the place of the body in religious virtuosity changed?
Isabelle Jonveaux
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