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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Ascetic"”.
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio
… martyrdom leads to a total loss of life, perhaps asceticism leads one into the "extraordinary" life, a life in which "normal" patterns are disavowed. Asceticism offers a way to "lose" one's former life and take on a new life based on abstention and self-constraint. This new life rejects many of …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
… ways in which the bishop of Milan formulated ascetic discourse in response to the needs and expectations of his audience. Furthermore, I attend to the various discontinuities in Ambrose's ascetic writings in the hope of illuminating what kinds of ideological work these texts were intended to …
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Sinful, Sexual and Sometimes Smelly: Representations of Ethiopians, Women, and Ethiopian Women in Early Acetic Christian Literature
… thesis examines English translations of early ascetic Christian literature and supplemental secondary sources in order to support four assertions. First, early ascetic Christians defined themselves by renunciation of sin in general and by celibacy in particular. Second, in literature by and …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
At first glance, it might seem that ascetic practices disappeared in England with the introduction of Protestantism. With the monasteries demolished, priests encouraged to marry, and the laity cautioned against superstitious practices of mortification, how can there be a cultural history of …
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Haunted Paradise: Remembering and Forgetting Among Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert
… practice, and understanding of late ancient asceticism in Egypt's northwestern desert (Scetis, Kellia, Nitria, and Pherme). After a "barbarian" raid of Scetis in the early fifth century supposedly exiled Christian monks from the desert, Egypt came to be remembered as the birthplace of ascetic …
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Modern Myth and Masculine Character: Revealing the fit 'self' in MTV's I Used to Be Fat
… the self, this paper asserts the continuity of ascetic ethical practices in the representation of modern fitness. This analysis draws on Julia Kristeva's figure of the abject in order to provide a missing gender component to Foucault's articulation of self-renunciation. Expanding Foucault's …
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"Our Father Isaac": Reading the Sahidic Testament of Isaac in an Egyptian Monastic Context
… Egypt read <em>Testament of Isaac</em> as an ascetical regimen in order to transform themselves into children of Isaac. <em>T. Isaac</em> highlights three particular dimensions of Isaac's character from the remembered tradition of Isaac that would have resonated in the Egyptian monastic …
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Nala as Nara, Raja, & Yudhisthira: Masculinity, Kingship, & Dharmic Suffering in the Nalopakhyana
… rise and popularity of contemporary, heterodox ascetic movements such as Buddhism. I further argue that Nala provides valuable insights into how such strategies were used to invert and redeploy ascetic ideals of suffering and salvation, most notably in the character of Yudhisthira. To support …
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The perception of women in late antiquity and the impact it had on female asceticism.
… why women in Late Antiquity felt inspired to be ascetic. Early Church Fathers believed all women were flawed like Eve, and the dissertation highlights how these negative perceptions could be overcome when women became ascetic. An object of the study is to illustrate how females, in Late …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… persons' abstention from sexual intimacy, as an ascetic practice. The prevalent scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to universalize ascetic practice. This study endeavors to dismantle such …
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Heavenly choirs in early medieval England: A study of topoi in their contexts
… fabric of visions, hagiographical narratives and ascetic guidance literature. Unlike previous studies that have examined topoi, the thesis both thoroughly scrutinises developments in commonplaces and situates them within their wider religious and cultural contexts. It therefore shows how topoi …
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Asceticism, the sage, and the evil inclination : points of contact between Jews and Christians in late antiquity.
… The thesis of this dissertation is that natural asceticism, the sociological and religious role of the sage, and the anthropological belief in the evil inclination are three aspects shared between predominate groups of Jews and Christians in late antiquity. This dissertation argues the following …
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Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
… the general (addressed to Everyman), the ascetic (addressed to exemplary Christians), and the philosophic (addressed to the scholar). Representative works of the different branches are investigated within the ideological context of their genesis and within the generic and philological …
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In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good
… communal living of Shakers and Early Christians, ascetic monks and The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our physical world when compared to more eternal …
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Worldly Ascetics: Managing Family, Status, and Territory in Early Modern Shugendō
… of supernatural power and enlightenment via ascetic practice in the mountains. While mountain austerities were central to the tradition, settled, spouse-keeping yamabushi organized into households constituted the majority of its members in the late medieval and early modern periods; the study …
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A comparative sociopsychological assessment of attitude toward physical activity in selected male members of running clubs
… as a catharsis, and physical activity as an ascetic experience.</p><p>Specifically, the study was conducted to compare attitudes toward physical activity between senior runners aged 25 to 39 and master runners aged 40 and over as measured by Gerald S. Kenyon’s six dimensions of physical …
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Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
… best name for Kierkegaard is that of a Christian ascetic. Kierkegaard was committed to a vision of the Christian life as suffering for the truth in imitation of Christ, a suffering that necessarily entails poverty, chastity, obedience, and—above all—persecution. The importance of Kierkegaard's …
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Nothing Matters: Answering the Question ‘Where’s the Art?’ through Ma and Gen
… the concept of Ma has often been associated with ascetic reduction, manifested as simplicity and silence, the paper begins with a study into the use of nothingness and the void in minimalist artworks. It also builds on my MA research and Sachiyo Goda’s study into the intercultural understanding of …
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The Civic Life of the City Block
… to develop politically active citizens that are ascetic in nature, less they wish for a more despotic government. This study makes an attempt at understanding the basic elements that make civic structure of a city at the scale of a block. These elements are broken down into: Site, Boundary, Axis, …
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