dedication
Under devotion (: and devotion , devotion ) refers to the woody inner wholehearted participation using a people for a business or a person for that person of the highest personal value is.
Devotion is related to commitment, effort , diligence and passion ; however, their movement is not an active urge, but a turning, opening up and receiving.
The term took its form from Christian theology , but is mostly used today in secular contexts, for example to denote a person's commitment to a self-chosen purpose or sexual entrustment.
Concept history
antiquity
The motif of self-sacrifice ( devotio ) was already known in antiquity , for example in the case of the story of the Roman consul Publius Decius Mus , who turned himself in 340 BC. To win the battle of Vesuvius , which the gods are said to have sacrificed.
World religions
The Judaism knows the kawwanah as devotion of the faithful in prayer .
With the church fathers , devotio also became a Christian program, especially with Ambrose , for whom it, as devotion to God and piety, together with faith ( fides ) forms the basic condition for man to be able to obtain the grace of God. At the end of the 14th century, the Devotio moderna emerged in the Netherlands , a religious renewal movement inspired by Christian mysticism , which more than mainstream Christianity aimed at personal and inner piety. The devotion - as religious contemplation - is closely related to the dedication. The vow constitutes a special act of surrender to God . In Christianity, devotional objects are items such as B. Crosses , images of saints and icons that are supposed to stimulate piety.
Devotion also plays a very central role in Islam . The Arabic word Islām (إسلام) means "surrender", namely also surrender to God.
In Hinduism , bhakti denotes the path of loving devotion to a personal God. Worship takes place in the form of prayers, songs ( Bhajan ) or the honoring ( Puja ) of the deity. The worship of Krishna is particularly pronounced .
Secular meanings
motivation
The term “devotion” is often used colloquially today to denote that someone carries out an activity with love and commitment.
The work psychology knows the term organizational commitment ( commitment = Engl. For "Devotion", "binding"), which refers to the motivation of an employee to work for a company or an organization.
Sexual devotion
Sexual devotion - as the willful indulgence of sexual arousal - was expected more by women than men in the Western world until the 20th century. In his Metaphysical Beginnings of Legal Doctrine (1797), however, Kant had already established that men and women give themselves to one another in sexual intercourse. The lovers make themselves an object of enjoyment for one another, whereby enjoyment , although permeated by active moments, is on the whole a passive behavior.
DH Lawrence provided a precise literary description of sexual devotion in his 1928 novel Lady Chatterley , which was designed as a developmental novel of female sexuality . In it, Lawrence describes with sober precision how the main character, Connie, who initially threatens to ruin love with her own critical intellect -
“She felt herself a little left out. And she knew, partly it was her own fault. She willed herself into this separate essence. Now perhaps she was condemned to it. She lay still, feeling his motion within her, his deep-sunk intentness, the sudden quiver of him at the springing of his seed, then the slow-subsiding thrust. That thrust of the buttocks, surely it was a little ridiculous. If you were a woman, and a part in all the business, surely that thrusting of the man's buttocks was supremely ridiculous. Surely the man was intensely ridiculous in this posture and this act! "
“She felt a bit left out. And she knew it was partly her own fault. She forced herself into this separation. Now maybe she was doomed. She lay still, feeling his movement within her, his deeply submerged zeal, his sudden tremor as he expelled his semen, then the slowly subsiding thrust. The buttocks thrusting, that was certainly a little ridiculous. If you are a woman, and are part of the whole thing, then poking the man's buttocks is sure to be deeply ridiculous. Certainly, the man is enormously ridiculous in this attitude and in this act! "
- later finds devotion and fulfillment:
“This was different, different. She could do nothing. [...] Whilst all her womb was open and soft, and softly clamoring, like a sea-anemone under the tide, clamoring for him to come in again and make a fulfillment for her. She clung to him unconscious in passion, and he never quite slipped from her, and she felt the soft bud of him within her stirring, and strange rhythms flushing up into her with a strange rhythmic growing motion, swelling and swelling till it filled all her cleaving consciousness, and then began again the unspeakable motion that was not really motion, but pure deepening whirlpools of sensation swirling deeper and deeper through all her tissue and consciousness, till she was one perfect concentric fluid of feeling, and she lay there crying in unconscious inarticulate cries. "
“This was different, different. There was nothing she could do. […] While her body was open and soft, and gently called like a sea anemone under the tide, demanded that he come back into her and bring her fulfillment. She clung to him, unconscious of passion, and he never entirely left her, and she felt his soft bud stir inside her, and strange rhythms welled up inside her, growing in a strange movement that became more and more rhythmic and grew until her split consciousness was completely filled with it, and then the unspeakable movement began again, which was not really movement, but only deepening eddies of sensations that swirled deeper and deeper through her entire flesh and consciousness until she was a perfect one there was a concentric flow of sensations, and she lay there, unconsciously uttering inarticulate cries. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Evangelist Niederhuber: The teaching of St. Ambrose from the kingdom of God on earth . Kirchheim & Co., Mainz 1904, p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Ralf K. Wüstenberg: Islam is devotion. Journey of discovery into the heart of a religion . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2016, ISBN 978-3-641-18929-7 , p. 64 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Oswald Bumke: Handbook of mental illnesses. Special Part: Part One The psychopathic dispositions, reactions and developments . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1928, pp. 308 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Beginnings of Legal Doctrine . (§ 25, p. 88f, edition by Kirchmann). Eugen Fink: Existence and Coexistence. Basic problems of human community . Königshausen + Neumann, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-88479-305-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ a b Lady Chatterley's Lover. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .