| 1. | "... by those labeled "town
monks." The lifestyle of wandering monks is impressive in its
asceticism and strict adherence to the monastic discipline (Pali:
vinaya)."
| Source: | Grady, Carla Deicke. "Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-CenturyThailand" Philosophy East and West v48.n3 July 1 1998: 514-517
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| 2. | "... scholar of asceticism, proves to be as much of an ascetic
discipline and lifestyle, I think, as any monastic life." If this
is so, then the joy of reading a finely wrought book ought to entail no
further penance."
| Source: | Queen, Christopher. "Asceticism" Philosophy East and West 49.1 Jan. 1 1999: 75-76
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| 3. | "... of his most memorable fictional creations,
repeatedly yearning, in the midst of his struggles, for the
"asceticism, silence and inspiration" of the monastic life
(158)."
| Source: | Mathy, Jean-Philippe. "Albert Camus: A Life" Cross Currents 48.4 Dec. 22 1998: 552-556
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| 4. | "... not people
entered of their own free will), consider the paradox: monastic life is
understood to be other-worldly asceticism, that is withdrawal from the
world."
| Source: | Swatos, William H. Jr,Christiano, Kevin J. "Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept" Sociology of Religion 60.3 Sept. 22 1999: 209
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| 5. | " Early Brahmanical asceticism speaks of two
primary categories: forest hermits and mendicants, monastic asceticism
being a later development."
| Source: | Hatley, Shaman,Inayatullah, Sohail. "Karma samnyasa: Sarkar's reconceptualization of Indian asceticism" Journal of Asian and African Studies 34.1 Feb. 1 1999: 139-140
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| 6. | "
In the network of Cluny monasteries-the pre-eminent monastic movement in
the 10th century-the monks who tended the gardens followed instructions
from the abbots in central France, who rejected asceticism and allowed
the monks to partake of the pleasures of the palate."
| Source: | Lord, Lewis,Petit, Charles W.,Kleiner, Carolyn,Fenyvesi, Charles,Tangley, Laura,Butler, Steven. "Life & culture" U.S. News & World Report 127.7 Aug. 16 1999: 72
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| 7. | "
This theme is developed first through a discussion of asceticism in
western orthodox contexts, both monastic and lay, and then through
focusing on asceticism in lay religious movements which came to be
regarded as heretical, especially the Waldensians and the Cathars."
| Source: | BURTON, JANET. "Schools of asceticism. Ideology and organization in medievalreligions communities" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.2 Apr. 1 2000: 400
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| 8. | "... were, by the grace of Christ the
Saviour of the world, embodied in this small book."(33) Aldhelm
also posits the bee community as a perfect model for monastic discipline
and cooperation: in his prose De virginitate, he describes the
bee's life-style and then asks, "Are..."
| Source: | RUST, MARTHA DANA. "The Art of Beekeeping Meets the Arts of Grammar: A Gloss of "Columcille's Circle"" Philological Quarterly 78.4 Sept. 22 1999: 359
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| 9. | " The life of constant training and self discipline encouraged by
Vegetius will have appealed to the followers of the monastic rule."
| Source: | Allmand, Christopher. "The De Re Militari of Vegetius: a classical text in the Middle Ages: Christopher Allmand considers the long-lasting impact of the great study of military tactics and organisation" History Today 54.6 June 1 2004: 20-26
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| 10. | " The
traditional monastic disciplines- prayer, meditation, adoration, the
beautiful liturgy of the hours, and "spiritual reading"-served
to draw one's thoughts back to Christ, the breadth and depth of his
love, and his enabling grace."
| Source: | Mathias, Anita. "I WAS A TEEN-AGE ATHEIST : Memoirs of a naughty Catholic girlhood" Commonweal 126.17 Oct. 8 1999: 13
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| 11. | "
While study of female monastic houses is a burgeoning discipline,
nevertheless most research has been confined to Ireland and the
continent, leaving English nuns, especially those in the later Middle
Ages, largely ignored."
| Source: | KERR, BERENICE. "The convent and the community in late medieval England. Femalemonasteries in the diocese of Norwich, 1350-1540" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50.4 Oct. 1 1999: 786
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| 12. | "... heretofore undervalued monastic document the
attention it deserves as an independent witness for the study of late
Anglo-Saxon monastic liturgy and discipline."
| Source: | JAYATILAKA, ROHINI. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Medium Aevum 69.1 Mar. 22 2000: 124
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| 13. | " It was part of a reform
movement that emerged in many religious orders, monastic and mendicant,
as a reaction against a general relaxation of discipline, defined as
Conventualism, which was a symptom of the Church's decline after
the Black Death."
| Source: | Ben, Nirit,Debby, Aryeh. "Political views in the preaching of Giovanni Dominici in Renaissance Florence, 1400-1406" Renaissance Quarterly 55.1 Mar. 22 2002: 19-49
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| 14. | "... "those who fell into sin after entering the
brotherhood." (64)
Episcopal councils also reveal the elevated degree to which
monastic confinement was sanctioned by the Church as a remedial
discipline for its disobedient members."
| Source: | Skotnicki, Andrew. "Foundations once destroyed: the Catholic Church and criminal justice" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 792-817
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| 15. | "
Chapter 5 exposes the worldly monks whom Rahula's
reinterpretation of the Dharmapalite vision spawned a litany of monastic
bad faith including crime, self-promotion, thuggishness, xenophobia,
will-to-power, war-mongering, and lax discipline."
| Source: | Walters, Jonathan S. "H.L. Seneviratne. 1999. The Work of Kings: the New Buddhism in Sri Lanka" Journal of Asian and African Studies 38.1 July 1 2003: 144-146
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| 16. | " Ignatius himself had to intervene in the life of
the society in Portugal to correct a wing of the order that indulged in
excessive forms of asceticism and prayer."
| Source: | Cunningham, Lawrence S. "Religion booknotes.(Credible Signs o" Commonweal 131.6 Mar. 26 2004: 26-29
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| 17. | " Explicit in her solution is the notion that lay
social life is opposed, at least in spirit, to the solitary and celibate
ideals of asceticism (1978: 33)."
| Source: | MILLS, MARTIN A. "VAJRA BROTHER, VAJRA SISTER: RENUNCIATION, INDIVIDUALISM AND THE HOUSEHOLD IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONASTICISM" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.1 Mar. 1 2000: 17
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| 18. | "... and asceticism, a defense of ordinary life, Chesterton's
affinity with paganism, a defense of religious ritual and doctrinal
complexity, his description of church authority, and finally objections
to liberal Protestantism."
| Source: | Kollar, Rene. "The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism" Church History 68.4 Dec. 1 1999: 1028
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| 19. | "... a thought-provoking discussion of asceticism and anti-familial
language in the Gospel of Thomas (Uro), and an essay dealing with family
structures in Gnostic myths, especially Sethian ones, and resulting
insights into Gnostic family life (Gilhus)."
| Source: | West, Maxine. "Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50.2 Apr. 1 1999: 319-321
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| 20. | "... how many people are interested in the
vigorous asceticism of the Dalai Lama, or even in seriously accepting
Buddhism as their way of life?"
| Source: | Levenson, Jon D. "The Seekers" Commentary 107.6 June 1 1999: 38
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| 21. | " His More is a
Christian humanist, committed to evangelical piety and private
asceticism, an active life of charity to the unfortunate, and to public
service as his worldly calling."
| Source: | Colish, Marcia L. "The Life of Thomas More" Commonweal 126.2 Jan. 29 1999: 28-30
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| 22. | "
Chapter five ("Holy Asceticism") is concerned with one of
the strongest ways in which ascetic ideology shapes the lives of Jain
laity: through dietary proscriptions and elaborate regimes of partial
and full fasting."
| Source: | Lutgendorf, Philip. "Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India" Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.4 Oct. 1 2003: 902-904
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| 23. | " Developing as well a taste for delicacies like
tortoise and biche de mer, Pym strays far from New England's simple
asceticism, (31) His propensity for "indulging" a
"ravenous appetite" and "thirst" paints instead a
parody of Southern insatiety."
| Source: | Faflik, David. "South of the "border," or Poe's pym: a case study in region, race, and American Literary History" Mississippi Quarterly 57.2 Mar. 22 2004: 265-289
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| 24. | "... Jaime Salinas, straight blondish hair
balding on top, very sharply defined features, even jagged, suggesting a
severity that schoolboy imaginations could associate with asceticism and
maybe even the Escorial..."
| Source: | Oliver, Raymond. "An Ars Amoris for language lovers" Southwest Review 89 Mar. 22 2004: 353-368
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| 25. | " This change has been noticed by Andreach, who writes that
"We find [...] in Hopkins' poetry a shift from
pseudo-mysticism to asceticism [...]."
| Source: | Sobolev, Dennis. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the language of mysticism" Christianity and Literature 53.4 June 22 2004: 455-481
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