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...

the present article is an attempt to study the appearance of asceticism and it’s development to mysticism ofter coming islamic religion.there are a lot of different views about the priority of asceticism to sufism or the priority of sufism to asceticism.the historical guidances prove that this evolution is accomplished from fear of god and his hell in to asceticism and abandonment of the life a...

Between 500 BCE and 300 BCE, religions worldwide underwent a dramatic shift, emphasizing morality and asceticism for the first time. A new study suggests that the emergence of this new type of religion can be explained by increases in prosperity.

The aim of this article is the reconstruction, analysis and presentation Henryk Elzenberg’s philosophy human being, with particular emphasis on his concept asceticism. philosophical anthropology based pessimistic evaluation reality, which itself founded negative nature. Human nature corrupt because primary will humanity, selfish self-seeking strives only for utilitarian values. overcoming pessi...