Asceticism of the mind

• Verfasst von: Graiver, Inbar [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Asceticism of the mind
• Titelzusatz: forms of attention and self-transformation in late antique monasticism
• Verf.angabe: Inbar Graiver
• Ausgabe: Reprinted in paperback
• Verlagsort: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Verlag: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: x, 237 Seiten
• Format: 23 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies and texts ; 213
• Fussnoten: Paperback reprint. Originally published 2018 ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-232) and index
• ISBN: 978-0-88844-429-5
• ISBN: 0-88844-429-X
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Ascétisme - Histoire - ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
• Sach-SW: Vie religieuse et monastique - Histoire - ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
• Sach-SW: Attention - Aspect religieux - Christianisme
• Sach-SW: Prise de conscience - Aspect religieux - Christianisme
• Sach-SW: Moi (Psychologie) - Aspect religieux - Christianisme
• Sach-SW: Discipline - Aspect religieux - Christianisme
• Sach-SW: Ascètes - Psychologie
• Sach-SW: Asceticism - Early church
• Sach-SW: Attention - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Sach-SW: Awareness - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Sach-SW: Discipline - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Sach-SW: Monastic and religious life - Early church
• Sach-SW: Self-control - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Sach-SW: Self - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Sach-SW: Church history
• Sach-SW: History
• Geograph. SW: Égypte - Histoire religieuse - Histoire ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
• Geograph. SW: Palestine - Histoire religieuse - Histoire ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
• Geograph. SW: Egypt
• Geograph. SW: Middle East - Palestine
• Zeit-SW: 30-600
• K10plus-PPN: 182353659X

Abstract

"This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism."--