Between community and seclusion : defining the religious life in the South Asian traditions, in Buddhism, and in Eastern and Western Christianity / edited by Mirko Breitenstein and Gert Melville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breitenstein, Mirko, editor.

Melville, Gert, editor.

Series:

Vita regularis. Abhandlungen ; Bd. 79.

Vita regularis. Abhandlungen ; Band 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monastic and religious life--Comparative studies.

Monastic and religious life.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Physical Description:

202 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Lit, [2020]

Summary:

"The fact that certain cultures and religions produced a way of life which, for the sake of self-perfection, expected its adherents to withdraw from various obligations to the world and to enter into the organisational structure of a monastic community obviously represents a constant anthropological foundation. The spectrum of monastic life within these various cultures was extremely diverse in its manifestations. It was the result of a high degree of flexibility in the face of constantly changing ideas about piety, social needs and concepts of community and individuality. However, an interreligious study with the aim of a scholarly analysis of comparable key elements across different monastic cultures does not exist yet. The editors as well as the authors of this volume are particularly interested in how monastic life was realised communally in many ways according to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the understanding of community and civilisation and therefore made a decisive contribution to the formation of our cultural identity"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Between Community and Seclusion: Some Preliminary Remarks / Gert Melville

Together or Alone? Some Aspects of Normative Identity of Brahmanical Ascetics in Comparative Perspective / Edgar Leitan

Caste, Initiation and Monasticism in the Caitanya Tradition of Hinduism / Angelika Malinar

Religious Sects, Syncretism, and Claims of Antiquity: The Dasanami-Samnyasis and South-Asian Sufis / Matthew Clark

Normative Ideals, Social Practice, and Doing Community in High Medieval Central European Reform Movements / Christina Lutter

The Correct View, Meditation and Conduct: Normative Texts for the Education of Tibetan Buddhist Monastics / Gabriele Coura

Monastic Recruitment Patterns and the Novitiate in the Early Byzantine Centuries / Peter Hatlie

Bodily Metaphors in the Normative Writings of Middle Byzantine Mount Athos / Jules Gleeson

Byzantine Monastic Space: Selection, Modification and Configuration Patterns / Ekaterini Mitsiou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783643148759

3643148755

OCLC:

1243512191

Publisher Number:

9783643148759