A visual approach to the study of religious orders / [edited by Marcin Jewdokimow and Thomas Quartier].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jewdokimow, Marcin, editor.

Quartier, Thomas, 1972- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in the sociology of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--Research--Europe.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Monastic and religious life--Research--Europe.

Monastic and religious life.

Monasticism and religious orders--Sociological aspects.

Visual sociology.

Photography in the social sciences.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Research.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders applies visual methods to the exploration of various facets of religious life, such as everyday lived experience, contemporary monastic identity or monastic architecture. Presenting a series of visual essays, it treats images not as simple illustrations but as an autonomous form of expression, capable of unveiling vital and developmental layers of experience, while inviting readers to examine and interpret the data themselves. The first book of its kind, it brings together case studies from various locations across Europe to demonstrate what the use of visual methodologies can contribute to social scientific research on religious orders. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, religious studies and theology and anyone with interests in religious orders"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: linking monasteries and religious orders with the visual / Marcin Jewdokimow and Thomas Quartier, OSB

Photographing friars: visualising the history of changing Dutch Augustinian identities / Brian Heffernan

Nun with a camera: an insider's view (The case of a Russian Orthodox monastery) / Kseniya Medvedeva

One year in a Dominican convent in Sudetenland: religious community in a post-atheistic and post-secular situation / Barbora Spalová and S̆imon K. Hlavatý

Shooting monastic identity: reflections on photography and spiritual transformation / Thomas Quartier, OSB

Monastic architecture as a bridge between ecology and spirituality: a case study of a Benedictine monastery in Clerlande (Belgium) / Bernard Sawicki, OSB

The lived spirituality of Czech monasteries through architectural materiality / Tereza Sedlác̆ková and Barbora Spalová

Outside-inside. Monasteries and monasticism in the local environment: religion, social memory and economy (The case of Cistercian monasteries in Poland) / Marcin Jewdokimow

Photo-elicitation: visual methods and monasteries. A few preliminary considerations and some results / Luigi Gariglio and Stefania Palmisano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367144500

0367144506

OCLC:

1080554185

Publisher Number:

99981526598