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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jonveaux, Isabelle, editor.

Pace, Enzo, editor.

Palmisano, Stefania, editor.

Series:

Annual review of the sociology of religion ; Volume 5.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : BRILL, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2014).

ISBN:

90-04-28350-1

OCLC:

897378861

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004283503 DOI