In the pious practice of imitatio Mariae, believers mirrored the sorrow of the mother through their own bodies in order to develop a kind of visceral empathy towards, and hence a deeper understanding ...

She describes how we can fall madly in love and sings the praises of the act of imitatio. If we want to learn something well, we seek out training. In training, certain procedures are explained, ...

“Imitatio Ludum” (2020), oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles/New York, ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on what familial love means within Jewish thought.

Simmons, Frederick V. 2019. Christianity and Eudaimonia, Luck and Eudaimonism. Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 47, Issue. 1, p. 43. Fozard Weaver, Darlene 2021 ...