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Jurnal Studi AgamaAsceticism, which is often identified as the act of mortification, is an attempt by a Christian to achieve Christlike perfection. In this act of asceticism, they are willing to abandon worldly pleasures and continue to strive for perfection.
Tonny Ilham Prayogo +7 more
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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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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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Sport, Olympism and Two Lifestyles
Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 2018 Research background and hypothesis. The study analyses two lifestyles: asceticism and hedonism. Spiritual and moral dimension of our lives form a wider background and the field of sport, especially renewed olympism, affect the closer one of our ...
Miloš Bednář
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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism
Genealogy, 2020 Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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, 2004 Origen could not be a more profoundly influential--if not sometimes enigmatic--figure when considered in conjunction with the controversial and puzzling historical phenomenon that is now called asceticism, the English term that is the usual (all too ...
Wimbush, Vincent L.
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Where to find Christian philosophy?: Spatiality in John Chrysostom’s counter to Greek Paideia [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the use of the concept philosophia in the writings and homilies of John Chrysostom. Although Chrysostom in his discussion of intellectual achievements draws on a long-standing tradition of Christian apologetics, he lends a new ...
Stenger, Jan R.
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The “Original Position” as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism
Religions, 2019 John Rawls’ well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the “original position” is put into play by the veil of ignorance.
Joseph Rivera
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Physical exercise in the context of orthodox ontology [PDF]
TIMS: Acta, 2016 Christianity has never denied the importance of the body, but unlike the West where the cult of the body and the physical is present, it has always given precedence to the spirit.
Gojković Goran +2 more
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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
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