Buddhistisk askese: Fra verdensforsagelse til coping og dannelse
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 Asceticism is a central concept in Buddhism. It is both a constituent ideal and a practice needing to be tamed by institutional religion. This article analyzes Buddhist asceticism as textual ideal and religious practice from an understanding of ...
Jørn Borup
doaj +1 more source
The sexual and theological ethics of gay marriage in France: a dialectic between autonomy and universalism [PDF]
, 2006 The debate on gay marriage has gathered pace globally and particularly in France. Here, the secularization of marriage as an ‘acte laïque’ has furthered progress towards a political and juridic recognition of gay marriage.
McCaffrey, E
core +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java [PDF]
, 2012 'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their ...
Retsikas, Kostas
core +1 more source
Askese inden for hinduisme: Et forsøg på typologisering
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 The aim of this article is to put forward a proposal for an extended typology of asceticism within Hinduism, which not only includes the religious virtuosos in the form of a durative ascetism but also the dynamic and iterative asceticism as it is ...
Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger
doaj +1 more source
Ascetic Attitude and Ecological Thinking
Paedagogia Christiana, 2011 Asceticism is founded on the etymology of Greek word askesis, which means ‘toexercise’, ‘to practice’, ‘to give a shape’ and this meaning is connected with activityand practical skills.
Katarzyna Łukaszewska
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Asceticism in the Tradition of Pesantren: An Eco-Critical Discourse [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesAsceticism is vital the religiosity of santri and enhancing their devotion to Creator through Islamic practices in pesantren life. This research is urgent for two reasons.
Lutfitasari Wevi, Mujtahidin Mujtahidin
doaj +1 more source
Elective affinities of the Protestant ethic : Weber and the chemistry of capitalism [PDF]
, 2010 Peer ...
Andrew M. McKinnon +26 more
core +1 more source