Christian communities & monasticism books

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This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible...  Read More >>

Collected Works Vol. 1: The Two-Fold Knowledge: Readings on the Knowledge of Self and the Knowledge of God Vol....  Read More >>

Melodies of a New Monasticism adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music)...  Read More >>

This book analyses the manuscripts of the Cîteaux, copied and illustrated during a period of intense reform at the...  Read More >>

For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instil...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of monastic exemption in early medieval France. In this era, the popes in Rome became...  Read More >>

Benedictine monastic spirituality has emerged as an antidote to the spiritual and cultural challenges facing people...  Read More >>

An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America:...  Read More >>

An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters...  Read More >>

An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters...  Read More >>

Edition of documents from a Gilbertine ""double house"" of monks and nuns reveals much about religious life at the...  Read More >>

In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as...  Read More >>

In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as...  Read More >>

Widely regarded as a premier journal dedicated to the study of Syriac, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies was established...  Read More >>

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Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Originally published under...  Read More >>

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Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised...  Read More >>

The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony, fourteenth-century Carthusian, is Ludolph of Saxony the most comprehensive...  Read More >>

Be inspired by one man's unflinching faith in God  Read More >>

Nuns' Priests Tales explores the spiritual ideas that motivated priestly service to nuns across Europe and throughout...  Read More >>

The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different...  Read More >>