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Hesychasm and Sufism—A Comparison Between Jesus Prayer and Dhikr
ReligionsThe comparison between Hesychasm and Sufism focuses on their respective mystical practices: the Jesus Prayer in Hesychasm and Dhikr in Sufism. Both traditions emphasize withdrawing from worldly distractions to achieve spiritual purity and communion with ...
Eiji Hisamatsu
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Breathing Divine Breath: on the Greco-Egyptian Sources of Hesychasm [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background.
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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Is there an Orthodox anthropology? [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022 The critical article states and briefly analyses the main problems related to Orthodox anthropology (a small section is devoted to particular points of anthropology in Eastern religions).
Dunaev Alexey
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Plotinus the antipalamite [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022 The synod of Constantinople of 1351 discussed six questions and answers concerning the Palamite doctrine of energies. Nikephoros Gregoras was condemned at the gathering and subsequently defended his position in his History of the Romans, where ...
Lauritzen Frederick
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Ascetic Practices in Interfaith Dialogue
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 804-820, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the fundamental theological and philosophical propositions on which ascetic teachings and mystical experiences within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Jainism are based. In particular, it examines spirituality, purification, and psychophysical techniques, including bodily postures, breath control, and inner exploration ...
Nataliia Pavlyk
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On the chanting space and hymns that were sung in it. Searching for chanting-architectural connections in the middle ages [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2017 The search for the unexplained interactions of domestic medieval liturgical music and sacred architecture of the Moravian style has not been the subject of interdisciplinary study so far.
Peno Vesna, Obradović Marija
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Studia Ceranea, 2021 The article examines the history of the Slavic translations of the work On Prayer by Evagrios (Evagrius) of Pontus (CPG 2452). The witnesses are more than 35 – in manuscripts of Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Moldavian-Wallachian provenance, from the ...
Anissava Miltenova
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Russian Elders: Aesthetics of Good-Imaged Beauty
Дискурс, 2020 Introduction. The paper substantiates the application of aesthetic characteristics to the examination of the image of Russian elders. It is proposed to move away from the traditional understanding of aesthetics only as a philosophy of art and beauty and ...
D. Yu. Dorofeev
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Two methods of contemplation: Yoga and hesychast prayer: An exercise in comparative religion [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 Using Arvind Sharmas's comparative method of reciprocal illumination, this essay examines two contemplative methods, the Hindu yogic, as de fined in Patafijali's Yoga-sutra, and the hesychast, as developed primarily within the Eastern Christian monastic ...
Bakić-Hayden Milica
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Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’ [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or ...
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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