Christian communities & monasticism books

From an international correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report comes a powerful...  Read More >>

This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom of the Carthusians of the London Charterhouse during the reign...  Read More >>

The heart as an image of love is found everywhere in popular culture, yet devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus...  Read More >>

This second part of a two volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval...  Read More >>

This book examines Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by Catholic Sisters between 1847 and 1918. Using...  Read More >>

Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek...  Read More >>

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century  Read More >>

Peter of Atroa (773–837 CE) was cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah. He resisted...  Read More >>

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Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom André Louf. Based...  Read More >>

""In Reseeding Religious Life through Global Sisterhood, sisters from around the world reflect on a synodal vision...  Read More >>

Revised edition of Tim Vivian’s Becoming Fire continues to inspire readers with ancient wisdom for modern Christian...  Read More >>

Kloster waren im Mittelalter Zentren spirituellen und kontemplativen Lebens. Neben dem zutiefst religios gepragten...  Read More >>

A transformative exploration of St Patrick's resilient leadership and its relevance for us today.  Read More >>

Imagine the enduring legacy and ancient hagiographical method used to recover the missing life and voice of St....  Read More >>

Hyperechios's Exhortation to the Monks for the first time in English translation Hyperechios...  Read More >>

This book is a study of one monastery of Benedictine nuns, who came from England to the Colony of New South Wales...  Read More >>

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Based on extensive research among Cistercian monks and nuns, this book examines social relations in monasteries,...  Read More >>

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Mendicant orders of friars were a powerful religious movement devoted to poverty and preaching; they emerged in...  Read More >>

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A lively and challenging exploration of things the contemporary Church needs to learn from monastic communities,...  Read More >>

During his travel throughout the desert of Egypt in the fourth century, Palladius, was able to compile a collection...  Read More >>

The history of Saint Susan’s monastery on the south coast of England is as remarkable as the tumultuous times in...  Read More >>