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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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Schopenhauer and beckett : theatre of asceticism [PDF]
, 2018 It is the central argument of this thesis that the plays Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days are Schopenhauerian-informed, Beckettian theatre of asceticism.
Thomas, Martin Lee
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The organization and institutions of female asceticism in fourth century Cappadocia and Egypt
, 1987 In discussing the organization and institutions of fourth century female asceticism I attempt to apply methods used in the study of history to a topic generally regarded as theological, and therefore almost neglected by scholars of Ancient History.
Elm, Susanna., Elm, Susanna K.
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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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'Anorexia Nervosa' : asceticism, differentiation, government
, 1993 This paper looks at the severe fasting practices most commonly found among young women. Almost all explanations for this behaviour centre around the notion of the pathological condition 'anorexia nervosa'.
Tait, Gordon
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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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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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AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
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IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016 The briefest explanation that could be provided for asceticism in the original Theravada Buddhist tradition is that it is a physically and mentally lived enterprise for fulfilling enlightenment (nibbana). As such, the enterprise demands serious practical
Isha Gamlath
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