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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Elective affinities of the Protestant ethic : Weber and the chemistry of capitalism [PDF]
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Andrew M. McKinnon +26 more
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Positifikasi Asketisme dalam Islam dengan Pendekatan Paradigma Klasik dan Modern
Substantia: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Ushuluddin, 2014 Asceticism in Islam is perceived as an ascetic (zuhd), the alienation of self and soul to be more focus in practicing pure worship (ibadah mahdhah).
Nurkhalis Nurkhalis
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0225 Transvestite Women Saints: Performing Asceticism in Late Antiquity
RIHA Journal, 2019 During Late Antiquity, the secondary importance of women compared to men was manifest through attitudes to their spiritual prowess; it was assumed that a characteristic of the female was an absence of potential asceticism except in exceptional ...
Hannah Hunt
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The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty
Religions, 2021 To theorize Jain sovereignty, this essay takes up Ernst Kantorowicz’s underlying query of what happens when a king dies. In turning to medieval Jain authors such as Jinasena, we see how sovereignty and renunciation were mutually constituted such that the
Sarah Pierce Taylor
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Det asketiske ideal: Iagttaget af Nietzsche og Foucault
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 This article presents a view of religious and philosophical asceticism in two prominent critics of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, who, despite obvious differences, agree on crucial points including the location of their own thinking ...
Lars Albinus
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Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
Open Theology, 2021 Early Christian heresiology is, like polemics in general, a genre that has commonly been negatively perceived in scholarship. There is an idea of heresiological texts as not only historically unreliable, but also unproductive, in contrast to the creative
Pålsson Katarina
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Religionshistoriske og typologiske overvejelser over fænomenet askese
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 In the current article I raise the question of asceticism as a ubiquitous and multifarious phenomenon in human culture. Contrary to much traditional scholarship on asceticism within the history of religion that has focused almost exclusively on the ...
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
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Fra bibelske til rabbinske opfattelser af askese: Jødedommens verdensbekræftende praksis
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 The purpose of this article is to supplement scholarly positions that define asceticism either as a matter of world renouncement and elitist self-exclusion from the world or as always oriented toward transcendent goals or practices of improvement because
Marianne Schleicher
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The Gospel of Chernyshevsky: Nihilism, Art, and Religious Asceticism [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019 The paper attempts to evaluate the philosophical and religious elements of Chernyshevsky’s book What is to Be Done. Taking into consideration a critical fortune that considered the book as a “new gospel”, the paper is divided into three parts.
Jimmy Sudário Cabral
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