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01Fasting Chart - Beliefnet.comwww.beliefnet.com

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When do the different

religions fast, and

what's the significance

of the fasts for those

religions? Here's a

more detailed

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03Don't Eat That! - A Jewish Personal Take on Fastingwww.myjewishlearning.com

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ways fasting in Judaism

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counteractive to our

modern pursuit ofpleasure, as a way of

cleansing the body and

focusing the mind, as a

communal act, and as a

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This video about the month-long fast of Ramadan as observed in America

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05The Bahai Month of Ala (Loftiness)The FastHas Begun!!!kakelc.wordpress.com

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The Baha'i religion also has a month-long fast, though Baha'i months are 19

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spiritual significance of the fast of the month of Ala.


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Professor Kathleen Dugan, of the University of San Diego, writes about the

history of fasting in Christianity and other religions but primarily shares her own

spiritual relationship with fasting. She connects with Jesus' fasting in the desert

in order to discern God's will, to the positive aspects of fasting found in the

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Karwa Chauth is a fast day

specifically for married

women in northwestern India,

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"god-sisters" and to protect

their husbands through the

merit of their pious fast.


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Finally, the time-honored tradition of

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