(n.) The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the literature illustrates a long-standing relation between self-starvation and religious ideals in Western culture and points to an association between contemporary anorexia nervosa and asceticism.
(2) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
(3) Focal points for the subsequent symptom complexes of sexual behavior in puberty are: psychosexual prematurity or retardation, masturbation, homosexual relations, pubertal asceticism and premature and frequently changing sexual relations.
(4) The hypothesis presented here suggests pleasing asceticism on the part of eukaryotes.
(5) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It is not a bundle of laughs, Wagner was going a bit loopy by the time he completed it, the opera is underpinned by distasteful theories of racial cleansing (directed, as ever, against the Jews), and there is an unremitting asceticism and Schopenhauerian rejection of the physical world.
(7) While al-Qaida and other global jihadists project an image of religious asceticism, jihadist militants – comprising as they do men interacting under conditions of stress – often have pornographic material close to hand.
(8) He admitted he was tired, and a slightly gaunt look emphasised the sense of asceticism.
(9) These findings also suggest that future cross-cultural research might examine asceticism about the body and food in religions other than Judeo-Christian, cultural groups with rituals of fasting and vomiting, and the presence of fundamentalist churches and missionaries in those non-Western cultures for which there are recent reports of eating disorders.
(10) Under the influence of the developmental mode in preadolescence, every case determines how to utilize adolescent mentality (asceticism and indulgence colored by masochism and defiance vs. obedience).
(11) Asceticism ruled, wedlock deployed merely as sexuality's panic room, as he famously expressed in Corinthians 7:9: "But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn."
(12) As Gill now believed, "there can be no mysticism without asceticism".
(13) The theme of the starving writer finding authenticity in the forced asceticism of the garret is a sub-theme in this series.
(14) High levels of denial and low levels of asceticism were found in all three groups.
(15) Asceticism implies a spiritual or religious foundation for the practices it denotes; moreover, the precise nature of the foundation is obscure.
(16) The case studies presented here demonstrate that this asceticism may be subjectively expressed through religious concepts about the body and food and suggest that future research formally investigate the religious practices and beliefs of anorectics seen clinically.
(17) Beatrice's stormy asceticism, ecstatic states and mood swings lend themselves to potentially competing hypotheses regarding the spiritual and psychopathological significance of her adolescent development and eventual life-course.
(18) The asceticism that characterises anorexia nervosa, has received little attention in the literature.
(19) Nietzsche especially objected to the nihilism of late Wagner, with what he saw as its parroting of Schopenhauerian pessimism and asceticism.
Sufism
Definition:
(n.) A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives.
Example Sentences:
(1) My Wahabi guide, Sayeed, tried to tell me that hardly anyone followed Sufism any more.
(2) She was spiritual as well, exploring the limits and pitfalls that came with being human, especially after she became an adherent of Sufism.
(3) In Turkey too, Sufism is frowned upon - although in the city of Konya, there are celebrations on the anniversary of Rumi's death every year.
(4) Like much of Sufism, the performance of the whirling dervishes works on many levels and is charged with symbolism.
(5) Thus sufism would be an adaptation from Chinese Shamanism.
(6) Tempting though it is to dismiss Parveen's claims that she can see Sufi saints among the audience, Sufism has a tradition of female mystics, notably the eighth century's Rabia al-Basri, who ran through the streets of Basra in Iraq with a blazing torch in one hand and a container of water in the other.
(7) Sufism, on the other hand, is a tradition devoted to the development of the higher intuitive capacity needed to deal with this issue.
(8) She continues to lend her name to local campaigns, however, for better reading in schools, for the preservation of the trees in Hampstead Heath, and, revealingly, to pursue a faith in Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam which she studied for years under the tutelage of Idries Shah.
(9) Its origins are in seventh-century aesthetics and followers of Sufism aim to achieve direct union with God.
(10) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(11) One, two, sufi... 204 The number of countries in which Sufism is practised 1.3 The number, in billions, of Muslims worldwide 20 The percentage of Muslims who class themselves as Sufis 10 The number of Sufi adherents, in millions, in Turkey 10 Number of Sufi adherents, in thousands, in Germany 195 Number of practising Sufis in New Zealand 125 Number of albums recorded by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · Ramadam Nights, featuring the al-Kindi Ensemble, is at the Barbican, London EC1 from 4 November.
(12) It was the latest such attack on devotees of Sufism, a mystical and generally moderate form of Islam despised by radical fundamentalists.
(13) It's the kind of sentiment echoed by most students of Sufism, such as Coleman Barks, whose translations of Rumi propelled the 13th century mystic into, bizarrely, becoming the bestselling poet in America in the Nineties (Madonna was a fan).
(14) They were selling manuscripts by Arab scholars on everything from astronomy and arithmetic to Islamic law, as well as mystical texts on Sufism, the otherworldly, saintly style of faith that the al-Qaida-affiliated Ansar Dine finds so offensive.
(15) Nusrat's family (originally from Afghanistan, a traditional centre of Sufism) have an unbroken tradition of singing qawwali for 600 years, yet you felt, somehow, as if you were plugging into something utterly modern.
(16) But Isis believes Yazidism, one of the world’s oldest religions, fusing elements of Zoroastrianism, Sufism, early Islam and Christianity, is godless.
(17) Everything that doesn’t conform to the most strict Wahhabi standards of acceptability, anything that is beloved by people that Isis doesn’t like, anything that represents non-Isis interpretations of Islam such as Shiism or Sufism, and anything from before the time of Muhammad.” Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party across the border in Syria’s Hassakeh province, where the Assyrian community has also come under assault by Isis, told the Guardian: “These are not Assyrian artefacts, these are artefacts for all of humanity.” Isis kidnapped more than 200 Assyrians in a sweep through villages south of the Khabur river last month, where members of the community had settled after the Simele massacre in the 1930s by the then-kingdom of Iraq.