Monk's Cell
«For anyone wanting to research the development of non-monastic-based contemplative Christianity in contemporary America, this book would provide an interesting ethnographic/practitioner's reflection on this religious aspect of society.»
James Grayson, University of Sheffield, Folklore
The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to a sometimes arduous task of self-reformation through rigorous study and practice, learned through the teachings of monks and nuns and the writings of ancient Christian mystics, often in isolation from family and friends. Les mer
door at all?
Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives around the United States, The Monk's Cell shows how religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and intentional living with intellectual study and intensive contemplative practices in an effort to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and experiencing the world. Organized by the metaphor of a seeker journeying towards the
inner chambers of a monastic chapel, The Monk's Cell uses innovative "intersubjective fieldwork" methods to study these opaque interiorized, often silent communities, in order to show how practices like solitude, chant, contemplation, attention, and a paradoxical capacity to combine ritual with intentional
"unknowing" develop and hone a powerful sense of communion with the world.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190680589
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«For anyone wanting to research the development of non-monastic-based contemplative Christianity in contemporary America, this book would provide an interesting ethnographic/practitioner's reflection on this religious aspect of society.»
James Grayson, University of Sheffield, Folklore
«The Monk's Cell makes an important contribution to the study of Western Christian monasticism precisely because it is not a bounded study of monastic life but rather a wider study of social practices and networks that place monastic spirituality at their center.»
Richard D. G. Irvine, Current Anthropology
«The Monk's Cell is a highly original study written with clarity, precision, elegance, and passion. It represents a significant contribution to the study of American religion and the emergent field of the anthropology of Christianity.»
Christal Whelan, Journal of Religious & Theological Information