Author : Inbar Graiver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Asceticism
ISBN : 1771103949
Asceticism of the Mind
Inbar Graiver
Asceticism Of The Mind
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Asceticism of the Mind
Inbar Graiver
Author : Inbar Graiver
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 088844429X
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This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism.
The Mystic Mind
Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Author : Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134297672
The Mystic Mind by Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach Pdf
A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.
Beyond Pleasure
Evert Peeters,Leen Van Molle,Kaat Wils
Author : Evert Peeters,Leen Van Molle,Kaat Wils
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459871
Beyond Pleasure by Evert Peeters,Leen Van Molle,Kaat Wils Pdf
Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present as the fashionable irritation with the presumed modern-day laziness. In the very texture of contemporary culture, age-old asceticism proves to be remarkably alive. Old ascetic forms were remoulded to serve modern desires for personal authenticity, an authenticity that disconnected asceticism in the course of the nineteenth century from two traditions that had underpinned it since classical antiquity: the public, republican austerity of antiquity and the private, religious asceticism of Christianity. Exploring various aspects such as the history of the body, of aesthetics, science, and social thought in several European countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Belgium), the authors show that modern asceticism remains a deeply ambivalent category. Apart from self-realisation, classical and religious examples continue to haunt the ascetic mind.
The Mystic Mind
Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Author : Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134297689
The Mystic Mind by Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach Pdf
Drawing on a database of over 1400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry applies modern biological and psychological research to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics.
Way of the Ascetics
Tito Colliander
Author : Tito Colliander
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0881410497
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"Way of the Ascetics is a rich, compact introduction for modern readers to the Eastern Christian spiritual tradition that has been an inspiration to millions for centuries. These compassionate and insightful reflections on self-control and inner peace are meant to lead the readers to fuller union with God. The author makes a generous selection of succinct yet profound extracts from the spiritual Fathers and provides an illuminating commentary and practical applications for daily devotion. He tempers austerity with common sense, warmth, and even humor, as he urges us on our journey toward God. Written for lay persons living fully in the world as much as for clergy, Way of the Ascetics is an excellent resource for daily meditation, authentic spiritual guidance, and a revitalized religious life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Asceticism
Vincent L. Wimbush,Richard Valantasis
Author : Vincent L. Wimbush,Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198034513
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From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceticism--a subject rarely studied outside the context of individual religious traditions. The work represents the input of more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines, and analyzes asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. Asceticism is organized around four major themes that cut across religious traditions: origins and meanings of asceticism, which explores the motivations and impulses behind ascetic behaviors; hermeneutics of asceticism, which looks at texts and rhetorics and their presuppositions; aesthetics of asceticism, which documents responses evoked by ascetic impulses and practices, as well as the arts of ascetic practices themselves; and politics of asceticism, which analyzes the power dynamics of asceticism, especially as regards gender, cultural, and ethnic differences. Critical responses to the major papers ensure the focus upon the themes and unify the discussion. Two general addresses on broad philosophical and historical-interpretive issues suggest the importance of the subject of asceticism for wide-ranging but serious cultural-critical discussions. An Appendix, Ascetica Miscellanea, includes six short papers on provocative topics not related to the four major themes, and a panel discussion on the practices and meanings of asceticism in contemporary religious life and culture. A selected bibliography and an index are also included. The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a model not only for an understanding of a most important dimension of religious life, but also for future interdisciplinary study in general.
The New Asceticism
Sarah Coakley
Author : Sarah Coakley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441162243
The New Asceticism by Sarah Coakley Pdf
Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds. Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.
Sites of the Ascetic Self
Niki Kasumi Clements
Author : Niki Kasumi Clements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0268107858
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Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of fifth-century ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360-ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. The social, cultural, political, doctrinal, and rhetorical milieus shaping Cassian's late ancient understanding allow us to read his works as an ethics for fractured selves in uncertain times. Cassian's practical asceticism provides a uniquely frank picture of human struggle in a world of contingency while also affirming human possibility in ways that signaled a challenge to followers of his contemporary, Augustine of Hippo. Niki Kasumi Clements brings historical and textual analyses into conversation with contemporary theoretical debates, most notably French philosopher Michel Foucault's readings of Cassian as anticipating modern subjectivity vis- -vis attention to obedience, submission, and self-renunciation. Instead of focusing on interiority and confession, Clements's engagement with Cassian's ethics contributes to contemporary reframings of religion as practice-centered, sharing methodological innovations with scholarship in the philosophy of religion that foregrounds the work of the body, the emotions, and intersociality alongside the role of critical reflection. With a focus on the lived experience and practical ethics of Cassian, Clements argues for constructions of ethics in asceticism as a lens to both critique and deepen our understanding of constructions of power--following the critical moves that Foucault himself develops. By challenging modern assumptions about Cassian's asceticism, Sites of the Ascetic Self proposes a new way to think about questions of ethics, subjectivity, and ethical agency in the study of religion today.
Plato and the Body
Coleen P. Zoller
Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470832
Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf
Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques. For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato’s metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace. Coleen P. Zoller is Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University.
Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World
Richard Damian Finn
Author : Richard Damian Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521862813
Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by Richard Damian Finn Pdf
Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity -- Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism -- Christian asceticism before Origen -- Origen and his ascetic legacy -- Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics.
Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
Tullio Federico Lobetti
Author : Tullio Federico Lobetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134472802
Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion by Tullio Federico Lobetti Pdf
Ascetic practices are a common feature of religion in Japan, practiced by different religious traditions. This book looks at these ascetic practices in an inter-sectarian and inter-doctrinal fashion, in order to highlight the underlying themes common to all forms of asceticism. It does so by employing a multidisciplinary methodology, which integrates participant fieldwork – the author himself engaged extensively in ascetic practices – with a hermeneutical interpretation of the body as the primary locus of transmission of the ascetic ‘embodied tradition’. By unlocking this ‘bodily data’, the book unveils the human body as the main tool and text of ascetic practice. This book includes discussion of the many extraordinary rituals practiced by Japanese ascetics.
On Liturgical Asceticism
David W. Fagerberg
Author : David W. Fagerberg
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813221175
On Liturgical Asceticism by David W. Fagerberg Pdf
Drawing on the Eastern Orthodox tradition of asceticism and integrating it with recent Western thought on liturgy, David W. Fagerberg examines the interaction between the two and presents a powerful argument that asceticism is necessary for understanding liturgy as the foundation of theology
Asceticism
Vincent L. Wimbush,Richard Valantasis
Author : Vincent L. Wimbush,Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Asceticism
ISBN : 9780195151381
Asceticism by Vincent L. Wimbush,Richard Valantasis Pdf
The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. "...A well-nigh inexhaustible source for study and reflection, it belongs in every theological, and especially monastic library."--Religious Studies Review
Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement
John Behr
Author : John Behr
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198270003
Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement by John Behr Pdf
Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these writings from within their own theological perspectives, John Behr also offers a theological critique of the prevailing approach to the asceticism of Late Antiquity. Writing before monasticism became the dominant paradigm of Christian asceticism, Irenaeus and Clement afford fascinating glimpses of alternative approaches. For Irenaeus, asceticism is the expression of man living the life of God in all dimensions of the body, that which is most characteristically human and in the image of God. Human existence as a physical being includes sexuality as a permanent part of the framework within which males and females grow towards God. In contrast, Clement depicts asceticism as man's attempt at a godlike life to protect the rational element, that which is distinctively human and in the image of God, from any possible disturbance and threat, or from the vulnerability of dependency, especially of a physical or sexual nature. Here human sexuality is strictly limited by the finality of procreation and abandoned in the resurrection. By paying careful attention to these two writers, Behr offers challenging material for the continuing task of understanding ourselves as human beings.
