Asceticism
Scope Note
Practices reflecting tendencies of self-abasement or self-torture; mortification of the flesh (e.g., flagellation, hookswinging, bed of spikes); fasting; sexual renunciation (e.g.. continence); renunciation of comforts (e.g., vows of poverty, wearing sackcloth); abandonment of worldly affairs (e.g., becoming a beggar or hermit); etc.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 150 Behavior Processes And Personality
- 261 Gratification And Control Of Hunger
- 304 Body Alterations
- 762 Suicide
- 792 Prophets And Ascetics
- 831 Sexuality
- Use Fors
- Abstinence (religious practice)
- Asceticism
- Autosacrifice (as ascetic behavior in worship)
- Beggars and begging (ascetic practice)
- Body mutilation (ascetic practice)
- Chastity (ascetic ideal)
- Continence (asceticism)
- Fasting (asceticism)
- Hookswinging (self mortification)
- Poverty (religious asceticism)
- Poverty (religious vows)
- Self-discipline (religious practice)
- Torture (ascetic practices)
- Vows (asceticism)
- Identifier
- 785
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