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A blossary of terms related to fasting in religious context.

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Fasting is very common among Jains and as a part of Jain festivals. Most Jains fast at special times, during festivals, and on holy days. Paryushan is the most prominent festival, lasting eight days ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima - English: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar of many Christian denominations that begins on Ash Wednesday and covers a period of ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

The Nativity Fast is a period of abstinence and penance practiced by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches, in preparation for the Nativity of Christ, (December 25). ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

The Nineteen-Day Fast (2 March–20 March) is a nineteen-day period of the year, during which members of the Bahá'í Faith adhere to a sunrise-to-sunset fast. Along with obligatory prayer, it is one ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

In Protestantism, the continental reformers criticized fasting as a purely external observance that can never gain a person salvation. Martin Luther believed that a Christian may choose to fast ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction, inappropriate eating habits or rituals, obsession with having a thin figure, and an irrational fear of weight ...

Domain: Psychiatry; Category: Mental disorder

The Black Fast is a severe form of Christian fasting. It is the most rigorous in the history of church legislation and is marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

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