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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Monastics"”.
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Monasticism and its limits: rematerialising monastic space in early medieval Ireland
… consideration of the ways in which early Irish monastics engaged with their environments. A sample of thirty-one early Irish ecclesiastical sites plus Iona forms the basis for discussion of the location and layout of monastic space, the ways in which monastics used buildings and space in their …
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An Experiential Perspective on the Buddhist Not-Self: Implications for Western Psychology
… practitioners of Theravāda Buddhism (i.e., monastics; N=6). Insights into understanding the self and its role in psychological well-being within Western psychology were discovered. These insights included Buddhist models of self, the development of not-self, feelings and drive associated …
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An Experiential Perspective on the Buddhist Not-Self: Implications for Western Psychology
… practitioners of Theravāda Buddhism (i.e., monastics; N=6). Insights into understanding the self and its role in psychological well-being within Western psychology were discovered. These insights included Buddhist models of self, the development of not-self, feelings and drive associated …
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Innovation in Tradition: Gregory the Great's Use of Classical and Patristic Thought in His Commentary on the Song of Songs
… relationship was the ultimate goal of the monastics. Starting with St. Anthony and spread by St. Athanasius in the fourth century CE, Egyptian monasticism was established in the deserts of North Africa. Around the fifth century, these monastic ideas disseminated within the western monastic …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
… function as an initiatory pattern drawing monastics into a dynamic of spiritual growth. Cuthbert’s time on Farne Island includes echoes of the Desert Saints as well as the crucifixion of Christ and results in a brief but powerfully kenotic episcopal ministry. Brigit’s Kildare becomes the …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… is advocating for a distinct separation between monastics and the institutional Church.</p> <p>In Cassian's writings and the larger corpus of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities; instead they cited quotes and …
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Printing as Practice: Innovation and Imagination in the Making of Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Texts in California
… production — largely populated by masters, monastics, and artisans — I explore what kind of work (both physical and imaginative) American volunteers must undertake in order to render themselves effective creators of the sacred in this American industrial setting. Drawing on current research …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… women, and yet who also praised unmarried female monastics in funeral sermons [<em>Leichenpredigten</em>]. Lutheran pastors wrote funeral sermons for both <em>Stiftsdamen</em> and married women, funeral sermons display similarities or differences between what virtues, characteristics, and displays …
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The female quest for enlightenment: Compassion and patience in transforming gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism, with specific reference to Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
… and pain, especially devastating for female monastics, and is therefore both contradictory to Buddhist principles and to the norms of a progressive society.
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From Mildrith to Muriel: networks of early English women’s literacy and collaborative literate production in the past and present
… have been popularized amongst early English monastics, especially nuns. Chapter Three seeks to demonstrate that asynchronous writing center appointments are just as efficacious at community building as synchronous-online or synchronous-in-person sessions. To do so, I analyze the Boniface …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
… temple and palace murals donated by merchants, monastics, and political elites. The dissertation consists of two parts: documentation and formal analysis, and semantic and historical analysis. Documentation and formal analysis of these murals, which decorate the walls and ceilings of temples and …
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Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex
<p>The early Middles Ages were a politically unstable period in Western Europe. No single king had a secure claim to the legitimacy of their rule, with usurption and military conquest making claims to legitimacy difficult to defend. England between the Augustinian mission (ca. 597) and the rule of …