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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The Limitations of Asceticism [PDF]
Medieval Worlds, 2019 This article discusses the limitations and advantages of using ›asceticism‹ as a universal category and as a hermeneutic tool in the study of late antique religious life and comparative studies of religious communities. It first explores the roots and the history of the terms ›asceticism‹, ›Askese‹ and ›ascétisme‹ arguing that they originate from early
Albrecht Diem
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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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Did Kant suffer from misophonia? [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMisophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds, often produced by humans but not always, which can trigger intense emotional reactions (anger, disgust etc.).
Arnaud Norena
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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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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 Lala
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Threads of Creation: Interrogating the Dialectics of Religion, Female Sexuality, and Motherhood in Mahabharata [PDF]
PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies, 2023 Mahabharata incorporates themes of political struggle, court intrigues, social hierarchization, cultural clashes, Brahmanical myth-making, sexual tensions and so on.
Sreya Mukherjee
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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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