When reading a book about the history of Buddhist
monasticism in India, one does not usually come across sections on pregnant nuns, monks getting divorced, and monastic childcare issues.
The program is designed to give young women an encounter with new monasticism--an international movement that seeks to adapt monastic practices of prayer and common living for modern life--within the context of the more traditional
monasticism practised by the SSJD, an order of Anglican nuns founded in Toronto in 1884.
The association's head, Andreas Nearhou, said they have written letters to the authorities asking them to investigate complaints against the "ring of recruitment of youngsters into
monasticism".
As the authors explain, the new
monasticism is monastic in that its central concern is a total commitment "to the development and maturation of one's spiritual life." But whereas traditional monks lived apart from the world behind closed doors and thick walls, new monastics are called to live out their spiritual journey and find unity with the Holy Spirit in a way that is radically incarnated in day-to-day life.
Alciato's main argument against
monasticism is that the life of someone in the world, successfully facing temptations and struggles, is spiritually better and more meritorious than the life of one shut up in a monastery, free from such temptations and struggles.
Yocum, Demetrio S., Petrarch's Humanist Writing and Carthusian
Monasticism: The Secret Language of the Self (Medieval Church Studies, 26), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013; hardback; pp.
He is author of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, The Awakening of Hope, The Wisdom of Stability, and The New
Monasticism. As a leader in the New Monastic movement, he speaks often about emerging Christianity to churches and conferences across the denominational spectrum and has given lectures at dozens of universities, including Calvin College, Bethel University, Duke University.
Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities: Collected Studies on Benedictine
Monasticism 1050-1150
In Silence: A Christian History MacCulloch once again leads readers through two millennia of Christian history, tracing the use of silence from the noisy Jewish scriptures through the remarkable silences of Jesus in the gospels, and then of Syrian and Egyptian
monasticism in the developing church.
Kenworthy, The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius,
Monasticism, and Society after 1825.
The author of this book is one of the great names in the study of medieval
monasticism and intellectual life, and crusading studies reflects only one aspect of his wide-ranging research interests.
Early Irish
Monasticism; An Understanding of its Cultural Roots.
The Story of Ireland (7.00pm) Fergal Keane explores Ireland''s cultural history, beginning with the origins of the Celtic people, detailing the impact of Christianity and
monasticism, and the emergence of early literature.
Shortly before the French Revolution and the subsequent coalition wars initiated the end of
monasticism in the Holy Roman Empire, Dominikus Hagenauer was elected--supported by a campaign of Leopold Mozart--to the abbatial see of St.
Attracting the Heart is a beautiful and significant book that challenges and furthers our knowledge of Buddhist
monasticism. It is rooted in person-centered ethnography that was carried out over a period of ten years within the central province of Sri Lanka.
