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SOARE, Rodica Elena. "SAINT LAZAROS OF MOUNT GALESION – HEAVENLY MAN OR EARTHLY ANGEL." International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science 6, no. 10 (2022): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/ijtps.2022.6.10.61-73.

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During the thousand years of Christianity, the institution of monasticism interacted with the other Byzantine institutions, being absorbed into the societal life. In the eleventh century, ordinary Byzantines or of the aristocratic class still recognized the superiority of monasticism as a model to follow for achieving the ideal of salvation. What attracted, producing admiration, was the asceticism of the monks along with the benefits that flowed from it for the people. At the same time, the more extraordinary asceticisms were, the more they became the target of criticism. First of all, they we

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Collett, Jessica. "Bede on Sickness, Episcopal Identity and Monastic Asceticism." Studies in Church History 58 (June 2022): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2022.2.

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The value of bodily affliction as a means for integrating an active life of good works on earth with the contemplative values of heaven, prior to the return of Christ and the world's end, remains relatively unexplored, despite suffering saints being a common medieval trope. Using the work of Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede, this article seeks to explore the interrelation of an active contemplative life and bodily affliction to shed light upon Bede's use of Gregory and his presentation of Cuthbert's episcopate to forge a distinctive understanding of the links between bodily illness, ep

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Hagman, Patrik, and Liisa Mendelin. "The Naked Intent: On Connecting Asceticism and Activism." International Journal of Public Theology 13, no. 3 (2019): 259–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341578.

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AbstractThis article explores the connections between political activism and Christian asceticism. It does so through a discussion with recent political theologies and historical research into (early) Christian asceticism. Two present-day cases, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Buy Nothing Year, are used to demonstrate similarities and potential for fruitful engagement between the two traditions. It is suggested that asceticism needs to be understood in a fuller range, incorporating introspective, imaginative and institutional aspects in order to make visible the potential for a dialogu

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Lu, Lianghao. "The Bodily Discourse in Modern Chinese Buddhism—Asceticism and Its Presentation in Buddhist Periodicals." Religions 11, no. 8 (2020): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11080400.

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This article focuses on accounts of bodily asceticism published in Buddhist periodicals in Republican China (1912–1949) in order to explore the mentality and motivation of publicly presenting this seemingly fanatic and backward tradition in an era marked by modernization. By zeroing in on practices of self-immolation, bodily mutilation, and blood writing, as presented in periodicals advocating either reform or preservation of Buddhist tradition, the article reveals that Buddhists with different visions for the modern form of Chinese Buddhism, despite their multifaceted responses, reached a con

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Mackie, Scott D. "Platonic Asceticism in Philo of Alexandria’s Contemplative Practice." Journal for the Study of Judaism 56, no. 1 (2024): 34–59. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-bja10096.

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Abstract Though Philo of Alexandria’s ascetic beliefs and practices often have been noted, a focused assessment of the Platonic influences on his contemplative asceticism has yet to be offered. While addressing that shortcoming, this essay identifies a number of key Platonic themes. Like Plato’s Socrates, Philo is capable of expressing a range of opinions concerning embodied existence and the roles of body and soul in noetic contemplation. Though generally pursuing a path of moderation, the rigorous demands of noetic contemplation necessarily call for extreme and austere praxes, as well as vig

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Pawłucki, Andrzej. "The place of bodily asceticism in a nation’s social structure." Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity 9, no. 2 (2017): 128–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.29359/bjhpa.09.2.12.

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de Wet, Chris L. "Angels in John Chrysostom’s Anthropology: Asceticism, Angelomorphism, and Human Bodily Composition in Flux." Journal of Early Christian History 10, no. 1 (2020): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2222582x.2020.1854048.

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Flora, Holly. "Feeling franciscan poverty in the Paris Meditationes vitae Christi." Specula Revista de Humanidades y Espiritualidad 12, no. 1 (2025): 125–67. https://doi.org/10.46583/specula_2025.12.1122.

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This study explores the embodiment of Franciscan poverty in the Meditationes Vitae Christi (Ms. ital. 115) with a focus on its likely Clarissan readership. Franciscan ideals of poverty, rooted in bodily discomfort and humility, are reflected in the text and accompanying illustrations, which emphasize Mary and Christ as models of voluntary destitution and charity. The manuscript encourages female readers to embrace poverty through spiritual and physical practices. It portrays Mary as a charitable giver and industrious worker, aligning her virtues with the enclosed life of Poor Clare nuns. Visua

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Bick, Shraga. "Living Under Monastic Law: Perfection and Obedience in John of Apamea." Journal of Early Christian Studies 33, no. 2 (2025): 221–47. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2025.a962351.

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Abstract: This article examines the attitude of John of Apamea, an early fifth–century Christian ascetic writer, to the Law and to the body. My argument is that the establishment of Christianity within the Roman Empire and the spread and institutionalization of monasticism, together with its emphasis on bodily practice and obedience to laws, has resurrected old themes and images from Jewish-Christian polemics, dating back to the Pauline epistles, over the relationship between the body and the Law. In John’s period, however, the question has changed: While in the first centuries c.e. the focus

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Walsham, Alexandra. "Eating the Forbidden Fruit: Pottery and Protestant Theology in Early Modern England." Journal of Early Modern History 24, no. 1 (2020): 63–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342661.

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Abstract This article offers insight into Protestant attitudes towards food by exploring seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English delftware dishes and chargers decorated with the biblical motif of the Temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It investigates the biblical story and doctrinal assumptions that underpinned this iconography and considers how objects decorated with it illuminate the ethics of eating in the godly household and reformed culture. Analyzing a range of visual variations on this theme, it approaches this species of Christian materiality as a form of embodied th

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Beaver, Rachel. "Image of Corruptible Man." Theologia in Loco 4, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.55935/thilo.v4i1.228.

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This article offers a reading of Life of Anthony through the lens of gender performance theory and masculinity studies to uncover one fourth-century construction of the ideal Christian man. Through the use of literature contemporary to Athanasius, I argue that Athanasius combined bodily self-presentation with literary and intellectual self-presentation to construct the ideal Christian man and secure his own masculinity in the public eye. One way he achieved this was by creating a hagiographical version of Anthony on whom he could project his own ideological preferences concerning asceticism an

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Saha, Sohini. "Phallus in the Practice of Brahmacharya." Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities 3, no. 1 (2022): 38–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jbsm.2022.030105.

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This article focuses on the place of phallus/penis in the practice of brahmacharya, the Hindu concept of celibacy. Contrary to the supposed irrelevance in the ascetic sphere, the article argues how brahmacharya seeks to embody the potent concept of the phallus. In following the ontological turn, this article seeks to move away from the notion of phallus as only a representation or a symbol; to rethink the concept in its relation to penis in order to argue for an embodied idea of phallus and the theoretical possibilities it garners in the sphere of asceticism. Engaging into an ethnographic stud

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Jain, Andrea R. "The Dual-Ideal of the Ascetic and Healthy Body." Nova Religio 15, no. 3 (2012): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.29.

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This article addresses institutional innovations in the Jain Śvetāmbara Terāpanth as it has adapted to a new socio-historical and cultural context. It investigates the intersections between the Terāpanth and the context of late-capitalism, particularly in India, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and discusses shifts in orientations toward the body as acts of adaptation to late capitalism. Historically, the Terāpanth held an ascetic ideal that required social withdrawal and bodily purification for the sake of spiritual release from the world. Beginning in the late twentieth century, ho

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Jorgenson, Cameron H. J. "The pleasures of food and the good life." Review & Expositor 117, no. 4 (2020): 483–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034637320974785.

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Contrary to the claims of some critics, the Christian tradition is not opposed to bodily pleasure. In fact, approached rightly, the pleasures of good food and drink can be occasions of divine encounter. Despite outlying examples of extreme asceticism, Christianity holds two truths in tension: pleasure is rooted in the goodness of God and God’s creative work, and yet, due to human “disordered loves,” pleasure can be powerfully corrosive to virtue. This article explores the tension by sketching the history of caution toward the pleasures of the palate by way of select philosophers and theologian

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Toussi, S. K. "The Central Importance of Spiritual Psychology in Ṣadrā's Philosophy". Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies 17, № 1-2 (2024): 27–45. https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2024.a949477.

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ABSTRACT: Mullā Ṣadrā's central issue of ʿilm al-nafs – to which he devoted one and half volumes of his nine volume Asfār – is the principle of bodily advent of the human soul and its spiritual survival through its lifetime undergoing substantial movement until the soul achieve the stage of immateriality. The evolution of the soul toward immateriality can be perfectional development toward divinity or – although spiritual – but an imperfectional movement toward Satanic end. The perfectional movement of the soul can be completed only if the soul enjoys the entire stages and realms of the existe

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Kömbe, İlker. "Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede’s Thoughts on Ethics: Synthesizing Peripatetic Philosophy and Sufi Thought in Ishrāqī Wisdom." Nazariyat İslam Felsefe ve Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences) 7, no. 2 (2021): 159–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12658/nazariyat.7.1.m0118en.

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This article analyzes the chapter on ethics from Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede’s (d.1702) commentary Sharḥ al-Akhlāq al-‘Aḍuḍ, a practical philosophy of ethics, household management, and politics. Müneccimbaşı lived from the mid-17th to the beginning of the 18 th century in the Ottoman period. Firstly, considering the period in which Müneccimbaşı’s commentary was written, it can be seen as a renewal and adjustment of the old tradition in terms of moral/practical philosophy. However, in the context of philosophical ethics, the commentary aimed to renew and update the ancient philosophy not as a separ

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Harrison, Anna. "Bynum, Gender, and the Western Christian Middle Ages." Common Knowledge 30, no. 1 (2024): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-11014023.

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Abstract As a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Caroline Walker Bynum across the Disciplines,” this article argues that Bynum's work on gender has overturned bedrock interpretations of the religious significance of the widespread ascetic practices of the Western Christian Middle Ages. Bynum's claim has been that medieval asceticism is best understood not as an upshot of dualism — of the soul and body understood as in opposition — but as “an effort to plumb and realize all the possibilities of the flesh.” Drawing on underused religious sources, analyzing in their larger social and

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Татьяна Анатольевна, Сенина. "Христиане как новые софисты: критика христианства в платонической философии Георгия Гемиста Плифона". Платоновские исследования 2, № 21(21) (2024): 200–222. https://doi.org/10.25985/pi.21.2.09.

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В статье показано, что Плифон в своих сочинениях под «софистами» имеет в виду христиан и полемизирует с их учением. По мнению Гемиста, христиане ввели в заблуждение множество людей, ложно утверждая, будто творят великие дела с помощью божественной силы и имеют знание, полученное непосредственно от Бога. Чтобы показать, что авторы Библии — выдумщики, недостойные доверия, Плифон объявил древнейшим авторитетом в области богословия и законодательства Зороастра и поместил его жизнь на много столетий раньше не только традиционной датировки жизни Моисея, но и принятой христианами даты сотворения мира

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И.С., Редькова. "ОТНОШЕНИЕ К БОЛЕЗНИ И УХОД ЗА БОЛЬНЫМИ В СТЕНАХ СРЕДНЕВЕКОВОЙ ОБИТЕЛИ (ПО ЦИСТЕРЦИАНСКОЙ ХРОНИКЕ «ВЕЛИКОЕ НАЧАЛО СИТО»)". Человеческий капитал, № 7(151) (28 липня 2021): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25629/hc.2021.07.03.

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В статье исследуется тема отношения к болезням и ухода за больными в средневековой цистерцианской обители. На материале исторической хроники цистерцианского ордена - «Великого начала Сито» - изучается, что средневековые источники сообщают о болезнях, и как их описывают. Также анализируется отношение монахов к болезням и к врачебному искусству в контексте монашеской аскезы и рассматривается организация ухода за больными в пределах обители. Отдельно изучается роль и значение монастырской лечебницы в ландшафте средневековой обители, ее практические функции как место изоляции больных от здоровых и

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Mitina, Natalya G. "The Theme of Love in Russian Philosophical Utopias of the 1920s and 1930s (Andrei Platonov and Stepan Kalachov)." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, no. 468 (2021): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/15617793/468/8.

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The article discusses the role of feelings in shaping the society of the future using two concepts created in the 1920s and 1930s in Russia. These are the projects of Andrei Platonov and Stepan Kalachov, which can be attributed to the philosophy of love. The concepts reflect the features of the post-revolutionary era and are linked to the transformation of the period. Despite some similarities between the projects, each has its own characteristics. Platonov's conception is characterized by a transformation we witness at the end of the 1930s, which was connected with the change of the philosoph

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Clark, Elizabeth A. "Reading Asceticism: Exegetical Strategies in the Early Christian Rhetoric of Renunciation." Biblical Interpretation 5, no. 1 (1997): 82–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851597x00058.

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AbstractWhen in early Christianity the ascetic body came to occupy a central discursive position, exegetes needed to find in Scripture ballast for their changing cultural project. This essay identifies three strategies by which patristic exegetes appropriated for their own purposes an apparently "underasceticized" Hebrew and early Christian past. The writings of John Chrysostom, Jerome, and Origen, respectively, provide the textual base. Chrysostom minimized the difference separating ancient Hebrew from contemporary Christian values: Hebrew patriarchs and Christian ascetics were not to be hier

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Elizabeth A. Clark. "Contested Bodies: Early Christian Asceticism and Nineteenth-Century Polemics." Journal of Early Christian Studies 17, no. 2 (2009): 281–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/earl.0.0252.

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Bornstein, Daniel. "The Uses of the Body: The Church and the Cult of Santa Margherita da Cortona." Church History 62, no. 2 (1993): 163–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168141.

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Our bodies, like the poor, are always with us. They are the mechanism through which we apprehend the world, and as such—as the inescapable point of contact between subjective consciousness and objective “reality”— the body becomes a primary medium of cultural communication and bearer of cultural meanings. Paradoxically, this is nowhere clearer than in the case of ascetics like Margherita da Cortona, who wage unremitting war on their bodies during their lives and whose bodily remains in consequence are enshrined and revered. It was through her body that Margherita, like other illiterate holy wo

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Daly, Todd T. W. "Chasing Methuselah: Theology, the Body, and Slowing Human Aging." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 73, no. 4 (2021): 233–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf12-21daly.

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CHASING METHUSELAH: Theology, the Body, and Slowing Human Aging by Todd T. W. Daly. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. 307 pages, index. Paperback; $38.00. ISBN: 9781532698002. *Chasing Methuselah brings "a Christological anthropology to bear on the scientific quest to attenuate aging by manipulating the body" (p. xi). Todd T. W. Daly, who teaches at Urbana Theological Seminary, argues that faith-based lenses are integrally important for interpreting historically diverse, and mostly failed, efforts to slow human aging--an elusive goal typically pursued by biomedical professionals, technocrats, a

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Hristova, Maria. "Asceticism and embodiment: female bodies, sexuality, and religious experiences in contemporary Russian women’s writing." Canadian Slavonic Papers 64, no. 1 (2022): 42–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2022.2035206.

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Skotnicka, Katarzyna. "Rola modlitwy w życiu syryjskich mnichów według Teodoreta z Cyru." Vox Patrum 62 (September 4, 2014): 471–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3597.

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Prayer was a basic goal of the lives of Christian monks. Historia religiosa by Theodoretus of Cyrus conveys a lot of valuable information on the subject of prayer of Syrian ascetics. The bishop of Cyrus used the notion of prayed to refer to any kind of requests and begging or thanksgiving and admiration. Theodoretus recorded particularly numerous examples of recoveries, which occurred by dint of intercessive prayer of ascetics. Monks prayed at different times of a day and in various postures (standing, lying or kneeling), they were also familiar with many kinds of prayer and addressed God with

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Ameen, Maliha. "Beyond Time and Space: A Comparative Exploration of Metaphysical and Ascetic Journeys in Islam, Spiritualism, and Mysticism." VFAST Transactions on Islamic Research 12, no. 1 (2024): 120–34. https://doi.org/10.21015/vfast-tir.v12i1.1798.

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This study explores the notion of spatiotemporal phenomena, particularly bilocation within the religious and mystical traditions of Islam and Sufism to understand deeper spiritual truths and their implications for the interconnectedness of material and metaphysical realms. Hermeneutical and phenomenological analyses have been employed to discern the complexities of bilocation (Time and Space) with a comprehensive examination of scriptural texts, and historical accounts of spirituality, asceticism, and mysticism to uncover the realities. Findings reveal that time and space; a bilocation with co

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Mondry, Henrietta. "Synthesizing Religions: Vasily Rozanov’s “Phallic Christianity”." Religions 12, no. 6 (2021): 430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12060430.

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Vasily Rozanov was one of the first Russian writers of the fin de siècle to create a nexus between the study of the history of world religions and the history of sexuality. He viewed Christianity’s asceticism as a source of the disintegration of the contemporary family. This article examines Rozanov’s strategy to synthesize religions and to use pre-Christian religions of the Middle East as proof of common physical and metaphysical essence in celestial, human, animal, and mythological human/animal/divine bodies. I argue that while his rehabilitation of the physical life by endowing it with reli

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Vinogradova, Yulia A., and Vladimir S. Okolotin. "Museum-organising activities of the People's Commissariat of Education in Ivanovo-Voznesensk province in 1918–1920." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 28, no. 1 (2022): 48–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2022-28-1-48-54.

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The article is devoted to the study of the activities of public education bodies in organising the work of museums on the territory of the newly formed Ivanovo-Voznesensk Province in the early years of the Soviet state. Using the example of museums in Kineshma and Ivanovo-Voznesensk, the main problems they had faced, were considered. The importance and relevance of museums for educational purposes is revealed not only for the centre of the province, but also for lesser towns. Examples from the practice of collecting historical, cultural, artistic and museum values in the estates of industriali

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Jezierski, Artur. "Świętość człowieka w nauczaniu Kościoła Prawosławnego." Elpis 12 (2010): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/elpis.2010.12.08.

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What are sanctity and transfiguration of human being? In what way we can define these concepts?Human plays active role in such process. The Holy Bible accepts free choice of human between Good and Evil, as a natural condition of human responsibility. In what way Saints practiced their asceticism and approached to transfiguration of their souls and bodies? mysteries of Saints were penance and humility.The true aim of Christian life are gathering the Holy Ghost and being in unity with Him. Shortage of food, pray to God, charity and all Good which we do in the name of Jesus Christ are means to un

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Kokoszko, Maciej, Krzysztof Jagusiak, and Jolanta Dybała. "The Monastic Diet in the Light of Medical Science. Theodoret of Cyrus and Medics on Dates and Figs." Studia Ceranea 10 (December 23, 2020): 123–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.10.06.

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The aim of this article is to present the menu of early Christian monks in the context of the findings of Greek and Roman medicine in the field of dietetics. It draws from the passages of Historia religiosa by Theodoret of Cyrus about the consumption of dates and figs by Syrian ascetics. Both species of fruit did not comprise the basis of the monks’ limited diet. Figs and dates were treated as additional food by them, which they ate rarely and in small quantities. According to Theodoret, they did so especially when their bodies were weakened, during long and exhausting fasts. Accor

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Fauth, Søren Robert. "Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s In the Penal Colony and Schopenhauerian Eschatology." Humanities 14, no. 1 (2025): 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14010005.

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Humanity has always aspired beyond the human. The technological development in recent decades has been extraordinary, leading to new attempts to overcome the all-too-human condition. We dream of conquering death, upgrading our bodies into perfect performance machines and enhancing our intelligence through bio-nanotechnology. We are familiar with the side effects: alienation, stress, anxiety, depression. This article contends that Franz Kafka’s enigmatic oeuvre at its core harbors a yearning to transcend the human. Through a close reading of the narrative In the Penal Colony, it is demonstrated

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Divino, Federico. "Seers and Ascetics: Analyzing the Vedic Theory of Cognition and Contemplative Practice in the Development of Early Buddhist Meditation and Imaginary." Religions 16, no. 3 (2025): 378. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030378.

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This paper represents an attempt to investigate some aspects of Vedic religiosity, as represented in the R̥gveda (R̥V), in comparison with the Pāli Canon on the themes of cognition, contemplative practice, and the theory of knowledge. It aims to argue that the metaphors in R̥V, for instance, fire, the chariot, the yoke, light, and the ocean, bear proto-Buddhist ideas that have influenced Buddhist meditative practices. These metaphors reflect a theory of knowledge and cognition that shares certain features with the Pāli Canon. The Vedic seer, the figure around whom this discussion revolves, is

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Kotelnytskyi, Nazar. "Activities of the Zemstvo Liberal Party of Northern Ukraine in the field of vocational and technical education (1870s)." SUMY HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL JOURNAL, no. 43 (2024): 15–25. https://doi.org/10.21272/shaj.2024.i43.p.15.

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The publication highlights the main manifestations of the activities of the liberal party of northern Ukraine in the field of vocational and technical education. The author concludes that during the 1870s, the issues of progress in this segment of education were the subject of constant attention of representatives of the zemstvo liberal party of the Northern Left Bank. The liberal zemstvos of the region made the main bet on the establishment of educational institutions that were designed to develop agrarian and craft education, for example, agricultural schools, since the realities of the post

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Jaini, Padmanabh S. "Jaina monks from Mathura: literary evidence for their identification on Kuṣāṇa sculptures". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 58, № 3 (1995): 479–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x0001291x.

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Among the thousands of Jaina images found throughout India, those from Mathura produced during the Kuṣāṇa period are unique, for they alone contain representations of unclothed Jaina ascetics holding a single small piece of cloth in such a way as to cover their nudity. These curious figures cannot be identified with monks of the present-day Jaina sects of the Digambaras, who practise total nudity, or of the Śvetāmbaras, who wear two long pieces of unstitched white cloth wrapped around their bodies and occasionally a white blanket over their left shoulders. The veteran art-historian, the late D

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Kolosova, O. Yu, and P. G. Nemashkalov. "The role of the Orthodox clergy of the North Caucasus in the incorporation of the region into the Russian Empire in the middle of the XIX century." Гуманитарные и юридические исследования 11, no. 3 (2024): 464–72. https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2024.3.6.

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Introduction. The reference to the history of forming an independent Caucasian and Black Sea diocese is due to the study of the problem of the incorporation of the North Caucasus into the Russian Empire. In the absence of an extensive system of administrative control bodies and a protracted military conflict in the first half of the 19th century, the process of searching for a platform of national identity was underway, which allowed not only to reduce the level of escalation of the conflict, but also to incorporate the North Caucasus into the socio-cultural space of the Russian Empire. Materi

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Andrzej, Pawłucki. "THE NATURAL LAW AND THE CULTURAL LAW OF BODILY ASCETICISM THE NEW ROLE FOR TEACHER OF SCHOOL GYMNASION." European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science 3, no. 12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1043794.

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The subject of this reflection within the area of pedagogy and the philosophy of physical culture is bodily asceticism: both secular and religious. The asceticism of the <em>gymnasion</em> leads to the refinement of bodily powers so as to be able to fulfil social tasks. Penitential asceticism is a means of symbolic reparation for sins committed. It is known that the first kind of asceticism brings the body alive; the second "mortifies" it. The models of the religious asceticism of monks are discussed, both of those who integrate into the social life of mainstream society (internal as

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Mackie, Scott D. "Platonic Asceticism in Philo of Alexandria’s Contemplative Practice." Journal for the Study of Judaism, December 23, 2024, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-0000010096.

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Abstract Though Philo of Alexandria’s ascetic beliefs and practices often have been noted, a focused assessment of the Platonic influences on his contemplative asceticism has yet to be offered. While addressing that shortcoming, this essay identifies a number of key Platonic themes. Like Plato’s Socrates, Philo is capable of expressing a range of opinions concerning embodied existence and the roles of body and soul in noetic contemplation. Though generally pursuing a path of moderation, the rigorous demands of noetic contemplation necessarily call for extreme and austere praxes, as well as vig

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Lindfors, Antti. "Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking." Body & Society, December 28, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x231218413.

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While anthropological and social studies of the body have extensively explored self-tracking cultures, they have so far overlooked the phenomenon of biohacking, which represents a distinct though overlapping mode of contemporary techno-asceticism with its own set of norms and frameworks for bodily self-use. This article seeks to address this gap by examining biohacking within the context of self-tracking cultures and its simultaneous alignment with alternative health cultures. By analysing a substantial collection of recorded Biohacker Summit presentations, the study argues that biohacking rei

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Aakko, Maikki. "The Ecstasy of Desire: Some Notes on Asceticism and the Church of England's Living in Love and Faith." Studies in Christian Ethics, October 16, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09539468241283234.

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Recently the General Synod of the Church of England agreed to approve liturgical resources— Prayers of Love and Faith—for blessing same-sex couples. This decision was the result of a long process of discernment concerning matters of sexuality and identity called Living in Love and Faith. This article aims to critique some of the background ethical and theological assumptions at work in the Living in Love and Faith resources, specifically the way the role of asceticism is conceived in them. I argue that while there are promising references to formation of desire through discipline and restraint

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Fitouchi, Léo, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard. "Moral disciplining: The cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, September 16, 2022, 1–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x22002047.

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Abstract Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony, alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism, sobriety, modesty, and piety as cardinal moral virtues? According to existing theories, this puritanical morality cannot be reduced to concerns for harm and fairness: it must emerge from cognitive systems that did not evolve for cooperation (e.g., disgust-based “Purity” concerns). Here, we argue that, despite appearances, puritanical morality is no exception to the cooperative function of moral cognition. It emerges i

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Graarup, Kasper. "Simeons døde hund." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, no. 33 (September 1, 1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v0i33.2653.

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Symeon of Emesa is a holy fool. When holy fools appear in public, they behave as if they were mad, but at night when they are alone with God, they act as "normal" ascetics: they pray and cry and prostate themselves. When Symeon came to Emesa, he tied a dead dog to his belt and dragged it through the city gate. In my view, Symeon with his dead dog and idiotic and enigmatic behaviour is to be understood in relation to the passion of Christ. Holy foolishness is an ascetic practice, which is located and performed in the moral wilderness of the city. When anchoritic practices of asceticism take pla

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Phoebe, Georgiadi. "Early Byzantine Asceticism." Database of Religious History, June 27, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12573930.

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Holy men (θεῖος ἀνήρ, also called men, servants, friends or devotees of God) emerged in the East as early as Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine period. These were individuals that were thought to have been specifically chosen by God so as to spread his word and make him and his intentions present and evident to their contemporaries. In order to come closer to him and gain virtue and purity, holy men abandoned their previous life and practiced repentance and self-mortification through prayer and ascetic labour. As they needed to be undistracted to achieve this intimacy with God, holy men wi

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Rainer, Thomas. "Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 14, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.26022.

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In his letters to Roman aristocratic women about the proper use of scripture, Jerome dismissed purple makeup and any adornment of books with luxurious materials as wasteful distraction from the content of the text. He contrasts makeup and precious clothing with the textual correctness of his scholarly emended manuscripts and with corporal mortification and ascetic practices. Jerome’s dismissal of the materiality and sensuality of books goes hand in hand with a binary gender model that associates the philological work upon the text and the renunciation of its adornment with male scholarship. In

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Vagapov, Rodion R. "The Solution of the “Housing Issue” of the CPSU Apparatus of the Bashkir ASSR during the “Khrushchev Thaw”." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 10 (October 23, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2024.10.29.

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The principles of solving the housing issue in the era of the “Khrushchev thaw” in the Bashkortostan ASSR among the privileged part of Soviet society ‒ regional party managers ‒ were examined in the article, based on archival sources deposited in the National Archives of the Republic of Bashkortostan, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The author concretized the specifics of “allocation of housing” to the party nomenclature in one of the largest national republics in the RSFSR, characterized by hidden interdepartmental clashes that took place between the organs of the r

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Newbold, Ron F. "A.4. Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours." Studia Humaniora Tartuensia 6 (December 26, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sht.2005.6.a.4.

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The fourth century historian of the Roman Empire, Ammianus Marcellinus, focuses on attire and accessories that signify high rank, status and authority. In his narrative there are a number of cases where clothing and insignia feature in illegitimate or dangerous aspirations to power, and brought destruction upon the aspirants, or threatened to. An ongoing concern for Ammianus is how appropriately attired people are. He scorns the pretentious clothing of Roman nobles and bishops, took pleasure in retailing the reaction of the emperor Julian to his overdressed barber, and considered the craven Ep

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Rodan, Debbie, and Jane Mummery. "Animals Australia and the Challenges of Vegan Stereotyping." M/C Journal 22, no. 2 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1510.

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Introduction Negative stereotyping of alternative diets such as veganism and other plant-based diets has been common in Australia, conventionally a meat-eating culture (OECD qtd. in Ting). Indeed, meat consumption in Australia is sanctioned by the ubiquity of advertising linking meat-eating to health, vitality and nation-building, and public challenges to such plant-based diets as veganism. In addition, state, commercial enterprises, and various community groups overtly resist challenges to Australian meat-eating norms and to the intensive animal husbandry practices that underpin it. Hence act

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