Baptists trace their origins to early seventeenthcentury English Puritanism with the baptism by immersion of Thomas Helwys and John Smyth in Holland in 1607. Baptists and other dissenters believed the English Reformation had failed to achieve sufficient moral purity and doctrinal integrity. They also resisted the efforts of the Crown to impose uniform religious beliefs and practices through the...

Background Asceticism is deeply related to spirituality and fasting practices that have been observed in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) throughout history. Objective To make a psychosocial analysis of spirituality and asceticism within the historical context of Anorexia Nervosa (AN), from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, comparing ‘holy anorexia’ and contemporary AN. Ad hoc illustrative cases are de...