Annual review of the sociology of religion.

Annual review of the sociology of religion. Volume 5, Sociology and monasticism, between innovation and tradition /

In contrast with the growing belief in society that traditional religious institutions are losing credibility, there has been renewed interest in monasteries going beyond what is strictly defined as religious. There are, for example, increasingly numerous requests for cooking and gardening courses a...

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Other Authors: Jonveaux, Isabelle., Pace, Enzo., Palmisano, Stefania.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Series: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 5.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Monasticism and religious orders.

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Call Number: BL60 .A566 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Isabelle Jonveaux , Enzo Pace and Stefania Palmisano
  • Monastic Asceticism and Everyday Life /
  • Salvatore Abbruzzese
  • Virtuosity, "Folklorisation" and Cultural Protest: Monasticism as a Laboratory of the Confrontation between Christianity and Modernity /
  • Danièle Hervieu-Léger
  • Female Monasticism in Italy: A Sociological Investigation /
  • Giovanni Dalpiaz
  • Ethnography of Cloistered Life: Field Work into Silence /
  • Francesca Sbardella
  • Redefinition of the Role of Monks in Modern Society: Economy as Monastic Opportunity /
  • Isabelle Jonveaux
  • An Innovative Return to Tradition: Catholic Monasticism Redux /
  • Stefania Palmisano
  • New Spirituality in Old Monasteries? /
  • Kees De Groot , Jos Pieper and Willem Putman
  • Athos Outside of Athos: Orthodox Monasticism in the West /
  • Laurent Denizeau
  • Spiritual Direction in Orthodox Monasticism: The Elder Beyond Weber's Theory of Charisma /
  • Maria Hämmerli
  • A National Monasticism? Monastic Politics of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Syria /
  • Anna Poujeau
  • Contemplative Spirituality and the Intermonastic Encounter Movement /
  • Timon Reichl
  • Experiencing the Liminal: Understanding Separation and Transition among Buddhist Monastic Women in Contemporary Britain /
  • Caroline Starkey
  • A Space of Mountains within a Forest of Buildings? Urban Buddhist Monasteries in Contemporary Korea /
  • Florence Galmiche
  • Studying Contemporary Monasticism in Italy: An Anthropological and Historical Perspective /
  • Maria Chiara Giorda , Javier González Díez and Sara Hejazi
  • Monasticism and Society in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch /
  • Paul-André Turcotte
  • Séguy and the Monastic Utopia /
  • Enzo Pace
  • A Sociology of Imagined Societies: Monasticism and Utopia /
  • Jean Séguy
  • Index /
  • Isabelle Jonveaux , Enzo Pace and Stefania Palmisano.