Meaning and Siginificance of Fasting in Comparative Perspective – A Study with Special Reference to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by MOHAMMAD AKRAM

“…In the final analysis, it is maintained that as a form of asceticism fasting does not necessarily imply negation of body or society. …”
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Les transformations du jeûne chez les chrétiens d'Orient by Bernard Heyberger

“…But in the same time, the opportunity to refer to the Latin Catholic principles, leads some Oriental Christians to a lost of the sense of fasting as a collective ritual, on behalf of an individual and interiorized asceticism, focused on the sacraments. This evolution could be considered as a sign of the beginning of “modernization” among the Oriental Christians.…”
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Towards a Theological Overcoming of Anthropocentrism. The Vegetarian Choice by Paolo Trianni, Sara Sgarlata

“…An additional supportive argument in favour of establishing the new understanding can be found in the history of the Roman Church, besides the consolidated custom of carnivorous nutrition: there has been no shortage of positions in favour of vegetarian asceticism. This stance was also represented by Thomas Aquinas. …”
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The image of a Christian in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters by Litovchenko Elena, Kutomanov Sergey, Ryabtseva Marina, Onoprienko Inna

“…The image of a Christian evolved in this period from the weakly expressed version presented by Germanicus, a man for whom, more important the ancient cult of the body, despite belonging to Christian flock, to the ideal, seeking to asceticism, who embodied the bishop Faustus.…”
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Separation, Loss, Confinement, and Change: How Evagrius Can Speak to the Experience of Lockdown by Monica Tobon

“…They are also central to Evagrian asceticism, where they establish the conditions for the change at which the monastic life aims, namely to begin to reverse the effects of the fall by restoring the soul to health. …”
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The Normativity of Measure in Gregory Nazianzus’ and Gregory of Nyssa’s Orations on Love for the Destitute Poor by Monica Tobon

“…After situating them in their historical context I summarise each then comment on their content, highlighting Nazianzen's reconfiguration of classical motifs in the service of a revisionist social policy and Christian anthropology rooted in the imago Dei and Nyssen's recourse to ascetic theory with marked similarities to that of Egyptian desert asceticism as taught by Evagrius. This paper's discussion of these prophetic orations will contribute to knowledge of them and by extension of the two Gregories.   …”
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Bischof Thiddag und das Bischofsideal der Reichskirche am Anfang des 11. Jahrhunderts by Drahomír Suchánek

“…While the sources of the 10th century give us the monkish ideal of the bishop’s work, a rather traditional model of a saintly bishop, living a humble life, devoted to the asceticism and fulfilling his duties diligently, but with a certain self-denial; the ideal of the 11th century shifts to the selfconfident bishops, managing their administrative duties and even the mundane tasks without any trouble, not desiring to run away to the monastic solitude or regretting their work for the Empire. …”
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“Like a safe tower on a steady rock”. Widows, wives and mothers in the ascetic elites of Late Antiquity by Veronika Wieser

“…It aims to sketch the range of new opportunities that may have followed the conversion to asceticism while also reflecting on the more conventional models of womanhood that were still present. …”
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De l’hypothèse d’une analogie entre « direction spirituelle » et cure psychanalytique by Léo Botton

“…The fourth session of this conference, devoted to « asceticism and self-practices : individual and holy bonds », gave us the opportunity to question and examine the daring hypothesis of an analogy between the practice of the Spiritual exercices and the psychoanalytical therapy, hypothesis that was suggested but never really developed by Michel de Certeau.This article’s object is to show a special feature of the triangulation that takes place between the director, the Ignatian spirituality practioner and God in the the Spiritual exercices. …”
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ACTIVITIES OF RUSSIAN SURGEONS IN THE COURSE OF ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL AID IN THE TASHKENT DISTRICT OF TURKESTAN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX – THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY by Yu. N. Tsyryapkina

“…Sheverdin was one of the first surgeons who founded the rural hospital in remote place of Tashkent district – village Tillyau in 1899 – 1903, whose asceticism and dedication the inhabitants of this village still remember. …”
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Chrystologiczne aspekty w teologii św. Hieronima ze Strydonu by Edward Sienkiewicz

“…All this contributed to the recluse life of the author of Vulgata and the strict monk asceticism, so that he would not only understand Jesus but also try to imitate Him. …”
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Aesthetic Subjectivation and Identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” by M. Reza Ghorbanian

“…Informed by different views about the art of self-creation, from philosophy, asceticism and art, including the ideas of Foucault and Deleuze, it traces the archaeology of personal and collective identities in this poem. …”
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Levinas on the Relationship between Pleasure and the Good by Guangyao Wang, Longxiang Jiang

“…Finally, the paper places Levinas’s ethics in a dialogue with hedonism, virtue ethics, asceticism, and deontology, and regards Levinas’s ethics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between pleasure and the Good in the history of Western ethics.…”
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Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art by Henry Albery

“…The first deals with an opposition between the worldly aesthetics of pleasure associated with art and fashion and the aesthetics of asceticism as a representation of monasticism’s renunciate ideal. …”
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Hamlet, or about Death: A Romanian Hamlet directed by Vlad Mugur (2001) by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

“…While the bare stage suggests asceticism and alienation, the production distances the twenty-first century audiences from what might have seemed difficult to understand from their postmodern perspectives. …”
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The Dragon on the Path and the Emerald of Love: A Nietzschean reading of Rūmī’s concept of love by Arani Hamidreza Mahboobi

“…In this article, I argue that Rūmī, following Ashʿarite theodicy, attempts to transcend the moral position of theologians with his concept of love and, instead of appealing to the dominant asceticism of fear and terror, confronts human fragility through the framework of his mysticism of love. …”
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Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede’s Thoughts on Ethics: Synthesizing Peripatetic Philosophy and Sufi Thought in Ishrāqī Wisdom by İlker Kömbe

“…The second aim expressed the problematic of combining peripatetic philosophy’s virtue theory with the method of purification and abstraction from physical, bodily pleasure and other things through mujāhada [spiritual struggle] and riyāḍa [asceticism] in Sufi thought in order to see and know the essence of the absolute lights, which is the purpose of Ishrāqī wisdom. …”
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Hagiographical Discourse in “Vita Pythagorica” by Yamblichus and “Vita Antonii” by Athanasius of Alexandria by Aleksandra S. Balakhovskaya

“…In addition to the general hagiographic discourse, there was the Christian hagiographic discourse, which has such specific features as a clear boundary between divine and human nature, the biblical paradigms underlying hagiographical texts, a more radical image of asceticism, the specific nature of miracles, which are mainly miracles of mercy and performed by the power of God. …”
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Mystical Interpretation of Josef Story in the Qur’an by khalil Parvini, SeyyedAli Dasp

“…The interpretations provided of the surah up to the seventh century were based on asceticism and religious Law, however, later the teachings of Ibn Arabi and the effect he left among his followers raised the attention of commentators to esoteric interpretation.…”
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INTERRELATION OF MORALITY AND LAW IN V. S. SOLOVYOV'S PHILOSOPHY by O. A. Lugovaya, A. M. Sklyarovа

“…Solovyov: shame, pity, awe, and principles that serve as a means of achieving absolute good: asceticism, altruism, worship. Along with the good, the main ethical categories are considered: good, evil, freedom, purpose, conscience, justice, equality, etc. …”
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