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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Asceticism"”.
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Foucault's asceticism and the subject of AIDS
… his final project. My dissertation, Foucault’s Asceticism and the Subject of AIDS, will argue for the contemporary significance of Foucault’s call for a “homosexual ascesis” by placing Foucault’s last work on the genealogy of asceticism into direct dialogue with three of his intellectual and …
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Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
… The importance of Kierkegaard's embrace of asceticism was not only personal; this commitment to suffering was at the same time a rejection of Christian nationalism and the selfish aims of the modern nation-state. In this way, Kierkegaard offers the Christian within modernity a new way to be …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
… how can there be a cultural history of asceticism after the English Reformation? Asceticism is one attitude towards the relationship between body and soul. But that relationship conjures, and was read in the early modern period as implicating, other binaries: word and meaning; letter and …
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Peter Damian and ‘the World’: Asceticism, Reform and Society in Eleventh-Century Italy
The aim of this thesis is to conduct an analysis of Peter Damian’s letters specifically grounded in the immediate social and political contexts within which the letters were produced. Whilst Damian (c. 1007 - 1072) is generally seen as an important figure in the history of the Church as a whole, he …
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The perception of women in late antiquity and the impact it had on female asceticism.
… Late Antiquity, were perceived as inferior, but asceticism enabled them to follow in the footsteps of Christ. Female ascetics in Late Antiquity did not ascribe to the self-fulfilling prophecy of women that the Church Fathers offered them, but it had the adverse affect. Female ascetics in Late …
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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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Saint Jerome and Monasticism
… hermits and cenobites by the binding force of asceticism. Christian asceticism has as its basis the example and teaching of Christs and monasticism -- in both essence and continuity -- is one with the asceticism of the first three centuries. | The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the …
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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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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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Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber
… what Max Weber called "an ethic of inner-worldly asceticism", and consequently Pentecostalism may be a positive force for economic growth in developing countries.
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The Not-So Gnostic Crisis: Encrateia in Exegesis
… Out of this question came the development of asceticism, marking the beginnings of monasticism.</p>
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
… on God within. Thoreau cultivated himself by the asceticism of The Laws of Manu, and he transformed the Bhagavad-Gita's reflections on action into the grounds for political resistance. Gandhi recombined the Transcendentalists with Indian ideas to develop his satyagraha (holding to the truth in a …
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The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice
… skepticism, anarchism, and anti-societal asceticism. Against these interpretations I demonstrate the text has a complex but coherent diagnosis of human suffering in a cosmology of change. In response to this diagnosis the text also presents a complex but coherent set of ideals that treat …
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Auditory P300 In College-Aged Females At-Risk for Eating Disorders
… for the bulimia, interoceptive awareness, and asceticism subscales.
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The Last Victorian Knight: A Study of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
… masculinity and the early Victorian ideals of asceticism and chivalry shaped his world view and how the world viewed him. His unique style of masculinity engendered the trust of a small band of Arabs who risked their lives to inspire revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In so doing, Lawrence …
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"A Supreme Desire to Please Him": The Spirituality of Adoniram Judson
… response to his love for God was a self-denying asceticism. Chapter 5 demonstrates that Judson's interpretation of life's events was through the lens of eternity. His heavenly-mindedness permeated his vision for living and dying. Moreover, his eager expectancy of Christ's imminent millennial …
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Eating Patterns, Physique Anxiety, and Body Composition of Male High School Wrestlers Pre-Season and Competitive Season
… awareness (P = 0.04), maturity fears (P = 0.84), asceticism (P = 0.17), impulse regulation (P = 0.97), and social insecurity (P = 0.66). No significant differences were found in the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) between T1 and T2 (P = 0.88). No significant differences were found in body fat …
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Wolves in Lamb's Clothing: Redeeming the Images of Catherine of Siena and Angela of Foligno
… and the extreme degree to which they took their asceticism. In addition to their sanctity amongst the laity, both women were able to usurp some of the Church’s spiritual authority through their actions and texts. Thus, though both women wore the ‘lamb’s clothing’ of conformity, they were ‘wolves’ …
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The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England
… on Weber's analysis of Protestant worldly asceticism, which posits the rationalization of the conduct of life, and on Foucault's analysis of governmentality, which posits the converging governance of populations and individual conduct in the emerging early modern state. The second part …
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