Self-mortification may refer to:
Voluntary pain or privation to oneself
* in religious practice generally,
mortification of the flesh
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Mortification (theology) Mortification in Christian theology to the subjective experience of Sanctification, the objective work of God between justification and glorification. It means the 'putting to death' of sin in a believer's life. (Colossians 3:5) Reformed theologia ...
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Mortification in Catholic theology
Involuntary
* Sometimes used interchangeably with ''mortification of the self'', personality disruption done to an individual in a
total institution
A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Privacy is limited in ...
or a setting with similar characteristics
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