The vow of stability : an ethnography of monastic life / / Richard D.G. Irvine

• Autore: Irvine Richard <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Scottish Universities Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Sommario/riassunto: Though monastic life is often imagined to be a flight from the world, Benedictine monks take on the intense social commitment of life in close community. Drawing on long-term anthropological fieldwork in a Catholic English Benedictine monastery, The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life traces the monks' daily lives as they confront the eternal in the fabric of the everyday. Bringing into focus the vow of stability - a lifelong commitment to the monastery and its community - this ethnography explores the rhythms and architecture that sustain shared life in a world of movement and fleeting interaction. At the same time, it analyses those social processes that damage and undermine the monastic institution and those in contact with it - in particular the harm caused by sexual abuse. Engaging with the everyday dynamics of life in close community while paying close attention to the time-depth of monastic history, this is a study of how religious institutions endure and change through generations.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Vow of Stability
• ISBN: 1-917341-09-1; 1-917341-11-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911011769203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II