The Monk's Cell

Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity

Paula Pryce (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-068058-9 (ISBN)

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The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to a sometimes arduous task of self-reformation through rigorous study and practice, learned through the teachings of monks and nuns and the writings of ancient Christian mystics, often in isolation from family and friends. Those who are dedicated can spend hours every day in meditation, prayer, liturgy, and study. Why do they come? Indeed, how do they find their way to the door at all?

Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives around the United States, The Monk's Cell shows how religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and intentional living with intellectual study and intensive contemplative practices in an effort to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and experiencing the world. Organized by the metaphor of a seeker journeying towards the inner chambers of a monastic chapel, The Monk's Cell uses innovative "intersubjective fieldwork" methods to study these opaque interiorized, often silent communities, in order to show how practices like solitude, chant, contemplation, attention, and a paradoxical capacity to combine ritual with intentional "unknowing" develop and hone a powerful sense of communion with the world.

Paula Pryce is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1
Portico - Finding a Way to the Door of American Contemplative Christianity
Chapter 2
Antechapel - Gathering and Grounding Contemplative Christians in Pluralistic Society
Chapter 3
Grille - Silence and Seclusion: Contemplative Environments of Interiority and Receptivity
Chapter 4
Gate - Stabilities, Innovations, Diversities
Chapter 5
Choir - Silence, Stillness, Movement, Sound: Ritual, Attention, and Refinement of the Senses
Chapter 6
Sacristy - Prayer without Ceasing: The Ritualization of Everyday Life
Chapter 7
Sanctuary - The Person as Icon: American Christian Contemplative Ways of Knowing
Chapter 8
Cell - The Porous Self: Community and Intersubjectivity from the Inner Room

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Formula for Phenomenological Intersubjectivity
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Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2017
Zusatzinfo	98 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-068058-X / 019068058X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-068058-9 / 9780190680589
Zustand	Neuware