Monk's Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity - Hardcover

Pryce, Paula

 
9780190680589: Monk's Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019068058X ISBN 13: 9780190680589
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to the 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. Those who are dedicated can spend hours every day in meditation, prayer, liturgy, and study. Why do they come? Indeed, how do they find their way to the door at all? Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives across the United States and around the globe, 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paula Pryce is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019068058X
ISBN 13 
9780190680589
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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