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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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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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Iconic Spatiality: Image, Text, and Devotional Practice
, 2023 Studer-Karlen, Manuela
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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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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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“Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul
2012In this chapter, the author argues that the inclusion of the woodcut of St. Elizabeth in Petrus's image provides insight into a type of religious practice that differs from the more speculative form of devotion that scholars normally discuss. Modern scholarship on meditational images and meditational practice tends to privilege the more abstract and ...
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Devotion and Memory – Discourses and Practices
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