Sonorous Desert (eBook)

What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us

Kim Haines-Eitzen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
168 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23741-1 (ISBN)

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Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic traditionFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous Desert shares the stories and sayings of these ancient spiritual seekers, tracing how the ambient sounds of wind, thunder, water, and animals shaped the emergence and development of early Christian monasticism.Kim Haines-Eitzen draws on ancient monastic texts from Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine to explore how noise offered desert monks an opportunity to cultivate inner quietude, and shows how the desert quests of ancient monastics offer profound lessons for us about what it means to search for silence. Drawing on her own experiences making field recordings in the deserts of North America and Israel, she reveals how mountains, canyons, caves, rocky escarpments, and lush oases are deeply resonant places. Haines-Eitzen discusses how the desert is a place of paradoxes, both silent and noisy, pulling us toward contemplative isolation yet giving rise to vibrant collectives of fellow seekers.Accompanied by Haines-Eitzen's evocative audio recordings of desert environments, Sonorous Desert reveals how desert sounds taught ancient monks about solitude, silence, and the life of community, and how they can help us understand ourselves if we slow down and listen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • Acoustic Ecology • Admiration • Agave • Aircraft • Air Pollution • Ambience (sound recording) • anchorite • Anger • annoyance • Apache • archaeology • Arches National Park • Asceticism • Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge • Athanasius of Alexandria • audio engineer • Benedict of Nursia • Bioacoustics • Books of Kings • Buddhism • buddhism and christianity • bureaucrat • Cadillac Desert • Canyon • Cello • Cenobite (Hellraiser) • Chaplain • Chiricahua Mountains • Chiricahua National Monument • Christian • Christian History • Christianity • Christian monasticism • Christ in the desert • Cistercians • climate change • cockatiel • Colorado Plateau • Cookware and bakeware • Date Palm • Decorum • Deir Hanna • Desert fathers • dining room • Divine presence • Drinking Water • Dune • Eastern desert • egyptians • Electric Guitar • ephemerality • escarpment • Eurasian collared dove • Field Recording • Finger Lakes • Food • Fort Irwin National Training Center • geographer • Geography of Egypt • Georgia O'Keeffe • Ghost Ranch • Gospel • Gravity • Greek and Coptic • Hagiography • Handbook • Henry David Thoreau • Human voice • Illustration • Instant • Intention • israelites • Jebel Musa (Morocco) • John Climacus • John Wesley Powell • Jordan River • Jordan Valley (Middle East) • Judaean Desert • Late Antiquity • Late Latin • Lausiac History • listening • Literature • love at first sight • Massai • Mechanization • microphone • minaret • mojave desert • Monastery • Monasticism • Mount Athos • Mount Graham • musical composition • Music Is • Muslim • Nan Shepherd • National Park Service • Natural sounds • Negev • New Testament • Nick Middleton • obstacle • Ornithology • oven • Overtone • Paganism • Palestine Exploration Fund • Pamphlet • parking lot • peal • Penguin Classics • Pharaoh's Island • Phrase (music) • picturesque • Pliny the Elder • Poetry • Pope Gregory I • Prayer • Prevalence • Prophets of Christianity • Publication • Raoh • Refrain • Renunciation • resentment • Residential community • Rill • Robert T. Hill • rock art • Saint Catherine's Monastery • Semantron • sense of place • Sharing • shelter in place • Shenoute • Shrub • Sierra Madre Mountains (California) • Sinai Peninsula • sleeping bag • snorkeling • Social Movement • Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge • Soil • Song sparrow • sonoran desert • Sound of Water • Soundscape • Soundscape ecology • Sound Studies • southern arizona • Susan Sontag • The Ladder of Divine Ascent • the monastery • The Monastery (TV series) • Theology • Titus Canyon • Tradition • Trappists • treatise • Upper Egypt • voice change • water wheel • Website • White's • White-winged dove • Whitman's • Wildfire • William Wordsworth • woodpecker • World Health Organization • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23741-7 / 0691237417
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23741-1 / 9780691237411