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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815744603321

Titolo

Sociology and monasticism : between innovation and tradition / / edited by Isabelle Jonveaux, Enzo Pace, Stefania Palmisano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : BRILL, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-28350-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, , 1877-5233 ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

271

Soggetti

Monasticism and religious orders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 as well as guided tours in monasteries, the appeal of monastic products and media interest in the subject. In parallel with a strong crisis in its recruitment, monasticism in the Western world is experiencing a period of innovation and experiments accompanied by unexpected popularity, as is evidenced by numerous films and publications. We hope that this book will deepen the understanding of the specificity of monastic life in the in the contemporary world, in a religious area, and from a sociological point of view.