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Asceticism and illumination
The Question: The Relationship between Asceticism and Illumination How does asceticism contribute to the experience that is denoted by such terms...
1/1/08 by Jeffery D. Long · More from publication
Celibacy today: mystery, myth, and miasma
It was from sexual purity that the priesthood was believed to derive itspower.--Mayke de Jong (1). Celibacy, popularly understood, is the state of...
1/1/08 by A.W. Richard Sipe · More from publication
Asceticism in Islam
Every religion crystallizes after the death of its founder into differentiated exoteric and esoteric institutional forms. We tend to call the...
1/1/08 by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf · More from publication
Asceticism and the environment
Trees, Robes, Jewels Mahavira exhorted his disciples more than 2,400 years ago to see the trees in the forest not as a resource to be exploited,...
1/1/08 by Christopher Key Chapple · More from publication
Mei's invitation: a gentle asceticism for Chinese and Americans
Real peace cannot come from reliance on military force.... If we want toprotect real world peace, humanity must mutually understand, mutuallytolerate...
1/1/08 by Jay McDaniel · More from publication
Editorial
The juxtaposition of "asceticism" and "today" signals a need to inquire into the meaning of asceticism not only in history but in...
1/1/08 by Kusumita P. Pedersen · More from publication