Essays about: "Chastity"

Found 4 essays containing the word Chastity.

  1. 1. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
    Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Jane Eyre: Victorian Women’s Madness Maze

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Nargess Arab; [2018-03-26]
    Keywords : engelska; Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; Feminist Criticism; Victorian psychiatry; women mental illnesses; patriarchy; social construction of madness; marginalization;

    Abstract : Madness has always been a difficult concept to define as different sorts of behaviors have been considered madness in different times as well as different geographical, social and cultural contexts. In other words, the concept of mental illness is socially constructed. Madness is one of the main themes in Jane Eyre and appears throughout the novel. READ MORE

  4. 3. Saving a Saint : A Study of the Representation of Maria Goretti (1890-1902): a Saint, a Martyr, a Virgin, a Child

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kyrko- och missionsstudier

    Author : Helwi Margarita Cadavid Yani; [2018]
    Keywords : Saint Maria Goretti; Virgin Martyr; Representation; Papal discourse; Devotional discourse; Problematic aspects; Oversimplifications; Sexual violence; Rape; Hagiography; Catholic edificational biographies; Chastity; Charity; Forgiveness; Self-sacrifice in defence of virginal purity;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the legend of the Italian virgin martyr, Saint Maria Goretti (1890-1902). Her legend states that she died at the age of eleven protecting her virginity from her assailant Alessandro Serenelli who stabbed her numerous times, and that she granted him forgiveness before she died. READ MORE

  5. 4. Why honor is worth more than a life : A literature review about ’so called’ honor violence

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för hälsa

    Author : Malin Paulusson; [2013]
    Keywords : honor culture; honor; values; honor; violence; honor; killings; collective; society;

    Abstract : Background: In honor culture the family’s honor is valued by the girl’s or the woman’s social and sexual behavior, in her virginity, and is therefore dependent on how well she can manage the deeply rooted traditional norms that describes what is acceptable or not. Anyone who violates these norms and rules must be punished, and the most extreme form is killings, ‘so called’ honor killings, sanctioned by the community. READ MORE