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Abstinence, Devotional Practices, and Social Control
2020Abstinence from earthly pleasures – such as fasting, using a hair shirt, and ascetic sleeping conditions – as well as devotional practices were vital aspects of a holy life. They were frequently reported in canonization testimonies and other hagiographic texts.
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Churches and Devotional Practice
2020This chapter discusses the contribution of hymnology to nineteenth-century intellectual culture. It demonstrates how clergy and musicians engaged in scholarly writing and debate concerning the history, context, practice, and spirituality of congregational song. Using a diverse range of sources, including journal articles, lectures, sermons, and hymnals,
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RITUALS AND DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES IN SUFISM
Galaxy International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2021Sufism, also known as “tasawwuf “- Islamic manifestation of mysticism, has been one of the most discussed topics between Muslim and non-muslim world. Historically there emerged serious argumentations around Sufism sm and in every possible aspect of it, including origin of the name of Sufism, which directly concerns the problem of Sufism`s background ...
Sayora Rashidova, Iroda Pulatova
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2012
Most traditions of Buddhism consider saddhā (Skt śraddhā ), ‘trustful confidence’ or ‘faith’, as a quality which must be balanced by wisdom, and as a preparation for, or accompaniment of, meditation. Given this proviso, devotion plays an important part in the life of most Buddhists.
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Most traditions of Buddhism consider saddhā (Skt śraddhā ), ‘trustful confidence’ or ‘faith’, as a quality which must be balanced by wisdom, and as a preparation for, or accompaniment of, meditation. Given this proviso, devotion plays an important part in the life of most Buddhists.
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Practical Piety: Intimate Devotions in Urban Space
Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 2015AbstractCity spaces not only reflect doctrinal religious ideas in orientation and monumental architecture, they also both reflect and enable pragmatic accommodations to human frailty. Long-term immersion in ethnographic research reveals the linkages and tensions between the structure of official religious morality and the reality of everyday social ...
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Devotional Fitness as Discourse and Embodied Practice
2017In what follows, I bring to life the elements which I have mentioned in the condensed summary given in the introduction (Chap. 1). I elaborate on the connection of God and the believers’ body, the central topic of devotional fitness, because devotional fitness as a system of communications and embodiments revolves around the motif of the body as God’s ...
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Reappraising Objects of Desire Through Practices of Devotion
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2017Desires for mundane objects have been a central problem of soteriological concern in the development of many Indian traditions. Accordingly, they developed various methods for regulating and preventing them. But why would these practices be effective? To answer this question, I focus on the theology of the early Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, a sixteenth ...
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Spirituality-struck: anime and religio-spiritual devotional practices
2016Japanese animation (anime) has struck a chord with many members of the audience in the West although the cultural/linguistic/religious/spiritual context it belongs to differs from that of the Western world. This interest started around the 1960s, although anime’s earliest showing in the West dates back to several decades earlier (Buljan and Cusack ...
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