Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices by Federico Divino

“…As a contribution to the conceptual history of medicine in Buddhism, I intend to focus the present investigation on the ascetic problem of the “end of the world” as a means of achieving complete healing. The asceticism of early Buddhism reconciles the goal of transcendence with that of healing, carrying out a complex reflection on awareness and presence.…”
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Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia by José Guimarães

“…The fascination with human spirituality guided Marguerite Yourcenar in the incessant search for the depths of the soul and in the desire for an asceticism that will allow man to rise to levels of knowledge and communion with the elements, inaccessible to those who lack self-reflexion. …”
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Recruitment of the hadith of the Prophet in the poetry of Abu Ishaq al-Ilbiri by Salman Hattab, Rodan Mari, Ghousen Kababah

“… This research attempts to shed light on the use of the Prophet's Hadith in the poetry of Abu Ishaq Al-Ilbiri, and on the sources of quotation and the disclosure of the religious influence in his poetry,and the implications resulting from this recruitment, and the statement of its role in the service of the poet's experience of asceticism and its ability to excite and influence. …”
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Ascetyczny wymiar „ćwiczenia się w śmierci” w Drabinie raju św. Jana Klimaka by Arkadiusz Jasiewicz

“…Climacus highlights the profound importance of understanding the practices like ‘remembrance of death’ and metaphorical usage of ‘death’ for interpreting the ideals and tools of Christian asceticism. For John Climacus, the event and concept of death provide the organizing logic for ascetic life – principles according to which the monk can make progress by guarding his heart, by repentance and cry, prayer, struggle, and humility.…”
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Controversy, controversy and criticism against Christians in the Mandaean writings by Jesús Galisteo Leiva

“…I will pay special attention to the criticism of monastic and clerical movements and the forms of asceticism, as well as how common figures in both religions (God the Father, the Holy Spirit, Christ, Mary and of course John the Baptist) are treated in Mandaean creeds and beliefs. …”
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Purity of Heart and Perception of Reality in Pavel Florensky by Marisa Mosto

“…The mysticism of the heart in one of its highest figures that arises in the sphere of christian asceticism points instead to the integration of the person, to a transfiguration of his perception by which he enters into relationship with a frequency of the real that resembles a sort of entrance to Paradise. …”
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Pluie, vapeur et vitesse chez Turner by Muriel Adrien

“…The phrase « Rain, Steam and Speed » is also reminiscent of his programme of painting or « visuality » : his rain and steam are redolent of the mystical apophatic clouds, where spareness and asceticism are the sole means of access to the blaze of representation.…”
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Epistemological and Prudent Obstacles of Perfection in the Hadiqah al-Haqiqah by Sanai and its Reflection in the Art of Revelation by Mohammad Ali Khaledian, Mohammad Ahmadi Livani, Gholamali Zare, Hassan Ali Abbaspour Esfeden

“…Sanai is the first poet to entirely introduce Sufism, asceticism and mysticism into Persian poetry hence mystical issues have played an effective role in the development of his worldview. …”
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An empirical support of Schopenhauer's ethics: A dynamic panel data analysis on developed and developing countries by Fabio Zagonari

“…This paper covers all main theoretical features of Schopenhauer's ethics (i.e., life satisfaction arising from art, compassion based on virtue of justice or virtue of loving, and compassion leading to asceticism) in an analytical model, it translates this analytical model into a statistical model by referring to empirical variables (i.e., household expenditures in recreation and culture for art, the Gini index for compassion based on virtue of justice; percentages of people nationally defined as poor for compassion based on virtue of loving; percentages of believers in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism; governmental enrolments and expenditures in primary, secondary and tertiary education; and inter-generational equal access to Earth resources for compassion leading to asceticism), and it estimates this statistical model by using panel data at a country level for 99% of the world's population (i.e., 18% in 34 OECD developed countries and 81% in 128 non-OECD developing countries) from 2000 to 2020. …”
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Logotherapy and Orthodox Christianity: A Comparative Analysis of Axiological Principals by Badaev R.A.

“…Frankl’s logotherapy and the Orthodox christian asceticism. The aim of the article is to find common ground and crossing of meanings, which could be the ground for fruitful cooperation between Orthodox christian psychotherapists and secular phycologists. …”
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القرآن والتصوّف by خيرة منصوري

“…The Holy Qur’an was the source of Sufis’ contemplation and deepening, with respect to the noble verses that included the meanings of asceticism, mysticism and heading to the afterlife. …”
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The Matrons of the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity by Fabiano de Souza Coelho

“…The characteristics and forms of Christian asceticism, sexual renunciation and, finally, women in the Church of Rome in the late fourth century CE. …”
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Origins and Transformation of the Hristovers: Features of the Doctrine by Liudmyla M. Shuhayeva

“…They declared the whole world spiritual, condemned luxury, preached severe asceticism.…”
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The Category of the Ethico-Aesthetics in the Study of Byzantine Philosophy by George Arabatzis

“…It was thus a kind of ‘mild asceticism’. This ethical acceptance of the body turns against Neoplatonic speculation and cultivates the habitus that leads to artistic creativity. …”
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Elements of Mental Health from the Viewpoint of the Quran and Hadiths by Aliahmad Naseh

“…The study will show that, according to these two sources, the main factors in securing mental health for the individual and society are the following: enhanceing faith in God, trusting God, having a good opinion of God and positive thinking, being hopeful, maintaining the prayer, fasting, supplication, patience and perseverance, repentance, asceticism and restraint from vain worldly pleasures, love and affection, good-naturedness, marriage, and a decent profession.…”
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Note a margine su natura demoniaca, sessualità e donna in Bhagavadgītā As It Is di A. C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda by Bryan De Notariis

“…The doctrine of Svāmī Prabhupāda will be defined a “Traditional Worldly Asceticism” as a result of a comparison between the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement and the works and ideas of western scholars such as Wilhelm Halbfass and Max Weber.…”
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« Je suis un catholique » : la mémoire spirituelle de Flaubert chez les critiques chrétiens de l’entre-deux-guerres by Marina Girardin

“…From Charles du Bos to Henri Guillemin, including Albert Thibaudet and François Mauriac, the articles that we have considered in this study constitute a collection of texts which correspond to one another and which, beyond the thorny question of the finality of Flaubert’s asceticism, are supported by the peculiar will to reshape Flaubert’s spiritual memory in order to restore a new image of a christian writer to posterity.…”
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Passionate Theology - Desire, Passion and Politics in the Theology of J B Metz - Part I by H. M. Hofmeyr

“…The main categories of Metz�s Political Theology (notably asceticism, theodicy, negative theology and praxis) are linked to the (implied) central concept of concupiscence, eventually described as the might of what is. …”
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Distanz zeigen, Nähe erzeugen by Annette Kranen

“…The 132 images in total put forward variations of one subject: the body techniques of asceticism pursued in places of isolation from everyday life. …”
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Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger by Parker, L

“…Martha’s hagiographer eschews most traditional emphases of the Lives of female saints, such as celibacy and asceticism, presenting instead an original, inclusive vision of piety focused on participation in liturgy and the sacraments.…”