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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 This article explores, in the first place, Jerome’s creation of pro-virginal propaganda in a selection of his treatises and letters, through the employment of scriptural justification by means of ascetic exegesis and rhetorical strategies.
Johanna C. Lamprecht
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Le cynisme ancien : entre authenticité et contrefaçon
Aitia, 2015 As the founding principle of the philosophical experience of cynicism, the debasement of Sinope’s currency by Diogenes and (or) his father placed Cynic philosophy under the sign of a new minting of customs and values, counterfeiting becoming the ...
Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
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, 2006 A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India.
Flügel, Peter
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Religions, 2019 As recent research on the former bhaṭṭāraka lineages of Western and Central India has shown, the early modern Digambara tradition, rather than constituting a distinct, and defective, ‘bhaṭṭāraka era’, shows much similarity to contemporary ...
Tillo Detige
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Asceticism as an eclectic ethics [PDF]
Theoria, Beograd, 2014 The methodological divisions in ethics result in fundamental consequences both on the conceptual level and in the practical applicability of such ethics. These divisions arise from broader theoretical positions, however they are also the work of individual moral sensibilities or 'moral instincts', as they are called at least in the Hegelian
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Reiss\u27s The 16 strivings for God: The new psychology of religious experiences (Book Review)
, 2016 A review of Reiss, S. (2015). The 16 strivings for God: The new psychology of religious experiences. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 174 pp. $25.00.
Fuller, Lisa
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Askese som social/politisk mobilisering: Joseph Alters bog om Gandhi, Gandhi’s Body
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 There are several historical examples of asceticism as a means to social and political mobilization. Gandhi’s use of fasts and sexual abstinence in the larger fight for national independence is a well-known recent example.
Mikael Aktor
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Historical Context of Early Asceticism [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract Ascetics have impressed foreign visitors to India from an early time onward. The Greek Megasthenes, who spent time in eastern India around the year 300 bce, described ascetics that remained motionless for a whole day in one single position.
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The Blind Arhat and the Old Baby: Liberation by Wisdom, the Dry-Insight Practitioner, and the Pairing of Calm and Insight [PDF]
, 2019 The distinction between “calm” (Pāli: samatha; Sanskrit: śamatha) and “insight” (P: vipassanā; Skt: vipaśyanā) is one of several ostensibly related dichotomies that have exerted a significant influence on classical and contemporary understandings of ...
Fiordalis, David V.
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