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asceticism
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asceticism the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. The term comes (in the mid 17th century, via medieval Latin or Greek) from Greek
askētēs ‘monk’, from
askein ‘to exercise’.
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Asceticism and the hopeful self: subjectivity, reductionism, and modernity.
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...pilgrims. Her journey was a kind of asceticism, along with her prayers and kneeling...hard stone, but perhaps the greatest asceticism she undertook was, for her, the disappointingly...routinization of the site. Our nun's asceticism seems to have little cultural resonance...
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Asceticism.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...flourishing fascination with the study of asceticism. In 1993, an International Conference...Union Theological Seminary in New York. Asceticism is a collection of addresses and papers...in the study of so vast a topic as "asceticism." Asceticism occurs in so many places...
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Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval...its members. Arguing that monastic asceticism resulted in disciplined and austere conduct that was a precursor to Calvinist asceticism, Weber ventured before his death into...
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Eliezer Diamond. Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Jewish Quarterly Review; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture. Oxford: Oxford...exploration and definition of rabbinic asceticism, Diamond follows closely in the footsteps...Fraade, (1) who by broadening the term asceticism concluded that rabbinic literature is...
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Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity.(Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; READING RENUNCIATION: ASCETICISM AND SCRIPTURE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY...general thinking about early Christian asceticism and Scripture and a complex of related...particular (especially early Christian asceticism). C.'s critical command of...
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Asceticism and sexuality
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ASCETICISM AND SEXUALITY THE "TRUMPERY OF NATURE...TWO SOURCES OF MORALITY AND RELIGION "Asceticism and Sexuality" is a strange, perhaps...around this duality or this doubling: asceticism and sexuality.1 Obviously, such a...
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Asceticism
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and...vigorous and growing interest in religious asceticism. Our age in western culture, and particularly...we know quite what to think about asceticism. The participants in the international...
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Earth-honoring asceticism and consumption.(Critical essay)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of some ancient or newborn Christian asceticism. This time, however, it will be a...carries its own assumption. Namely, that asceticism speaks to something deep in the human...own questions. Is there a Christian asceticism that addresses the spiritual vacuity...
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Asceticism and illumination.
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Question: The Relationship between Asceticism and Illumination How does asceticism contribute to the experience that is denoted...That there is a strong relationship between asceticism and illumination is presupposed by a great...
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Other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval Waldensianism: a Weberian analysis.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...medieval manifestations of inner-worldly asceticism" (1976:183; translation altered...combinations of other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval religious movements preceded...368-69) had argued? In regard to asceticism, Weber's interest in lay sects and...
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Asceticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Asceticism (Gk., askesis , ‘exercise...religious attainment through discipline. Asceticism occurs in all religions, since in all...the only way forward. Nevertheless, asceticism is somewhat suspect in Judaism (but...
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asceticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
asceticism. The term, derived from the Greek...theoretical foundations of Christian asceticism were developed by Clement of Alexandria...to favour a more temporate external asceticism and to lay more stress on interior abnegation...
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asceticism, this-worldly
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
asceticism, this-worldly See PROTESTANT ETHIC THESIS .
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ascetic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
ascetic, asceticism . By the time of the Buddha asceticism was a well-established feature of the Indian religious...as a prince) and the life of extreme austerity and asceticism. Neither was satisfactory and the Buddha finally chose...
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Tapas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...x2018;heat’). Asceticism conceived as a force of creative heat...associated with the arousal of heat. Asceticism in some form is common to all yoga schools...mere celibacy to more extreme forms of asceticism such as never lying down, piercing...
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