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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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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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Belleten, 2023 The early 13th century marked an important transformation in both Christian and Muslim asceticism. These new ascetic movements, represented by the Franciscans and Dominicans in Europe and by the Qalandars in the Islamic World ...
Resul Ay
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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
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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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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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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
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Asceticism from the Perspective of Hafez and Nietzsche [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2016 Hafez's lyrics are loaded with concepts against asceticism, an approach which makes this mystical sonneteer distinct from other Muslim poets. It is worth mentioning, however, that having mystical experiences is not possible without ascetical practices ...
Ebrahim Rezaei, Mahdi Dehbashi
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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
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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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