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Monastic Bodies

Author : Caroline T. Schroeder
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203380
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Bodies written by Caroline T. Schroeder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dark Age Bodies

Author : Lynda L. Coon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204913
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dark Age Bodies written by Lynda L. Coon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Monastic Practices

Author : Charles Cummings
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0879074841
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Practices written by Charles Cummings and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sacred Heritage

Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496547
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Heritage written by Roberta Gilchrist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Life in a Modern Monastery

Author : Joseph McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Life in a Modern Monastery written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Relationship Between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training According to the Śikṣāsamuccaya

Author : Susanne Petra Mrozik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Relationship Between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training According to the Śikṣāsamuccaya written by Susanne Petra Mrozik and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Studies: French monasticism in 1503

Author : George Gordon Coulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Studies: French monasticism in 1503 written by George Gordon Coulton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Monasticism in 1503 ...

Author : George Gordon Coulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book French Monasticism in 1503 ... written by George Gordon Coulton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monastery Rules

Author : Berthe Jansen
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297008
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Monastery Rules written by Berthe Jansen and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca’ yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.

Henry VIII and the English Monasteries

Author : Francis Aidan Gasquet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry VIII and the English Monasteries written by Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry VIII and the English Monasteries

Author : Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Henry VIII and the English Monasteries written by Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monastic Life in the Middle Ages

Author : Francis Aidan Gasquet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Life in the Middle Ages written by Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coptic Christology in Practice

Author : Stephen J. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199258627
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Coptic Christology in Practice written by Stephen J. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of ancient and medieval Christology. Employing a range of interdisciplinary methods, Stephen J. Davis shows how Christian identity in Egypt was shaped by a set of replicable 'christological practices'. He thus enables readers to trace the Coptic church's theological and cultural transition from late antiquity to Dar al-Islam.

Dedication. a sketch of monastic constitutional history, by F.a. Gasquet. Introduction, by Ch. de Montalembert. book I. The Roman empire after the peace of the church. book II. Monastic precursors in the East. book III. Monastic precursors in the West. book IV. St. Benedict

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Author : Charles Forbes René de Tryon comte de Montalembert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book Dedication. a sketch of monastic constitutional history, by F.a. Gasquet. Introduction, by Ch. de Montalembert. book I. The Roman empire after the peace of the church. book II. Monastic precursors in the East. book III. Monastic precursors in the West. book IV. St. Benedict written by Charles Forbes René de Tryon comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard

Author : Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard written by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monkhood of All Believers

Author : Greg Peters
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493415565
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Monkhood of All Believers written by Greg Peters and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the institution of monasticism has existed in the Christian church since the first century, it is often misunderstood. Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies, reintroduces historic monasticism to the Protestant church, articulating a monastic spirituality for all believers. As Peters explains, what we have known as monasticism for the past 1,500 years is actually a modified version of the earliest monastic life, which was not necessarily characterized by poverty, chastity, and obedience but rather by one's single-minded focus on God--a single-mindedness rooted in one's baptismal vows and the priesthood of all believers. Peters argues that all monks are Christians, but all Christians are also monks. To be a monk, one must first and foremost be singled-minded toward God. This book presents a theology of monasticism for the whole church, offering a vision of Christian spirituality that brings together important elements of history and practice. The author connects monasticism to movements in contemporary spiritual formation, helping readers understand how monastic practices can be a resource for exploring a robust spiritual life.

Religious Bodies Politic

Author : Anya Bernstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607269X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Religious Bodies Politic written by Anya Bernstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.