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Author | : Caroline T. Schroeder |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0812203380 |
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Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unparalleled resource for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism. In Monastic Bodies, Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth examination of the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery using diverse sources, including monastic rules, theological treatises, sermons, and material culture. Schroeder details Shenoute's arduous disciplinary code and philosophical structure, including the belief that individual sin corrupted not only the individual body but the entire "corporate body" of the community. Thus the purity of the community ultimately depended upon the integrity of each individual monk. Shenoute's ascetic discourse focused on purity of the body, but he categorized as impure not only activities such as sex but any disobedience and other more general transgressions. Shenoute emphasized the important practices of discipline, or askesis, in achieving this purity. Contextualizing Shenoute within the wider debates about asceticism, sexuality, and heresy that characterized late antiquity, Schroeder compares his views on bodily discipline, monastic punishments, the resurrection of the body, the incarnation of Christ, and monastic authority with those of figures such as Cyril of Alexandria, Paulinus of Nola, and Pachomius.
Author | : Charles Cummings |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0879070501 |
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For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants to monastic life. In this revised edition, updated and expanded, Charles Cummings, OCSO, explores the common practices of the monastic life in order to rediscover them as viable means of leading persons to a deeper encounter with God. How do monks and nuns occupy themselves throughout the day? Have they modernized their lifestyle or is it still cluttered with medieval customs? Could any of the monastic practices be of use to those outside the monastery? A certain wisdom is necessary to know how to use such practices and how to give oneself to them until they lead one to God. After long monastic experience, Cummings shows us how the ordinary things we do constitute our path to God. In the art of living life, he argues, we are always beginners, searching for God through our concrete circumstances and actions.
Author | : Roberta Gilchrist |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108496547 |
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Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory. This title is available as Open Access.
Author | : Lynda L. Coon |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2011-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812204913 |
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In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. She demonstrates how the priestly body plays a significant role in shaping major aspects of Carolingian history, such as the revival of classicism, movements for clerical reform, and church-state relations. In the political realm, Carolingian churchmen consistently exploited monastic constructions of gender to assert the power of the monastery. Stressing the superior qualities of priestly virility, clerical elites forged a model of gender that sought to feminize lay male bodies through a variety of textual, ritual, and spatial means. Focusing on three central themes—the body, architecture, and ritual practice—the book draws from a variety of visual and textual materials, including poetry, grammar manuals, rhetorical treatises, biblical exegesis, monastic regulations, hagiographies, illuminated manuscripts, building plans, and cloister design. Interdisciplinary in scope, Dark Age Bodies brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology with recent works in religion, classics, and gender to present a significant reconsideration of Carolingian culture.
Author | : Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108696414 |
Download The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. Brooks Hedstrom then provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Christian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. Drawing upon critical theories in landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, Brooks Hedstrom looks at domestic settlements of non-monastic and monastic settlements to posit what features makes monastic settlements unique, thus offering a new history of monasticism in Egypt.
Author | : Joseph McCabe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Monastic and religious life |
ISBN | : |
Download Life in a Modern Monastery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Susanne Petra Mrozik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Relationship Between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training According to the Śikṣāsamuccaya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Gordon Coulton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Download Medieval Studies: French monasticism in 1503 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Gordon Coulton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Monasticism and religious orders |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anya Bernstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-11-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022607269X |
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Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among Buryats across changing political economies, Anya Bernstein argues that under conditions of rapid social change—such as those that accompanied the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union—Buryats have used Buddhist “body politics” to articulate their relationship not only with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world. During these periods, Bernstein shows, certain people and their bodies became key sites through which Buryats conformed to and challenged Russian political rule. She presents particular cases of these emblematic bodies—dead bodies of famous monks, temporary bodies of reincarnated lamas, ascetic and celibate bodies of Buddhist monastics, and dismembered bodies of lay disciples given as imaginary gifts to spirits—to investigate the specific ways in which religion and politics have intersected. Contributing to the growing literature on postsocialism and studies of sovereignty that focus on the body, Religious Bodies Politic is a fascinating illustration of how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.