Christian communities & monasticism books

1629 books were found.

Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993

Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu...

Author: Mario I. Aguilar
ISBN: 9781785920868
Format: Paperback
$168.00

The history of the Shantivanam ashram and the five figures of Christian-Hindu dialogue in India is the backdrop...  Read More >>

Saicho: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School

Saicho: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School...

Author: Paul Groner
ISBN: 9780824859152
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai School, is one of the great masters of Japanese Buddhism. This edition,...  Read More >>

St Aidan's Way of Mission: Celtic insights for a post-Christian world

St Aidan's Way of Mission: Celtic insights for a post-Christian...

Author: Ray Simpson ,  Brent Lyons-Lee
ISBN: 9780857464859
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Surveying the life and times of Aidan of Lindisfarne, this book draws insights into missional approaches to inspire...  Read More >>

Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831

Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831...

Author: Constantin Panchenko ,  Brittany Pheiffer Noble
ISBN: 9781942699088
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This work fills a major lacuna in the scholarship of wider Christian history and more specifically that of lived...  Read More >>

American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious...

Author: John T. McGreevy
ISBN: 9780691171623
Format: Hardback
$62.99

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in...  Read More >>

St. Dominic: The Story of a Preaching Friar

St. Dominic: The Story of a Preaching Friar

Author: Donald J. Goergen, OP ,  Timothy Radcliffe
ISBN: 9780809149544
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Holy Men of Mount Athos

Holy Men of Mount Athos

Author: Richard P. H. Greenfield ,  Alice-Mary Talbot
ISBN: 9780674088764
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns

Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns...

Author: Abbie Reese
ISBN: 9780190490591
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus

Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Robert Aleksander Maryks
ISBN: 9789004313347
Format: Hardback
$493.68

The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or...  Read More >>

On the Monastic Life

On the Monastic Life

Author: H H Pope Shenouda, III
ISBN: 9780994571007
Format: Paperback
$41.40

The monastic life was an integral part of H.H. Pope Shenouda III, not only as a monk but also as a patriarch. As...  Read More >>

Sermons for the Autumn Season

Sermons for the Autumn Season

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux ,  Irene Edmonds
ISBN: 9780879074548
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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A Dream Unfolds: The Story of Nano Nagle

A Dream Unfolds: The Story of Nano Nagle

Author: Noela Fox
ISBN: 9781782182368
Format: Paperback
$47.52

A Dream Unfolds recounts the true story of Nano Nagle, the founder of the Presentation Sisters. Combining accurate...  Read More >>

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks,...

Author: Claudia Rapp (Director of the Division of Byzantine Research, Director of the Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
ISBN: 9780195389333
Format: Hardback
$233.00

"The first exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the ""Boswell Thesis""...  Read More >>

The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms of Life

The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms...

Author: Gert Melville ,  James D Mixson
ISBN: 9780879072636
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt...  Read More >>

Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England

Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity...

Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
ISBN: 9781487520625
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action - where freedom incurs responsibility - was a...  Read More >>

A Companion to Colette of Corbie

A Companion to Colette of Corbie

Author: Joan Mueller ,  Nancy Warren
ISBN: 9789004297920
Format: Hardback
$570.24

A Companion to Colette of Corbie presents a collection of essays offering new historical and religious perspective...  Read More >>

Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe

Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion and...

Author: Philip Daileader
ISBN: 9781137540416
Format: Hardback
$194.04

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; Few figures were as widely...  Read More >>

Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends

Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical...

Author: Jason Zuidema
ISBN: 9781771121378
Format: Hardback
$157.30

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Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement

Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca....

Author: Bert Roest ,  Johanneke Uphoff
ISBN: 9789004309944
Format: Hardback
$427.68

This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with...  Read More >>

The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism: The Western Tradition

The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism: The Western Tradition...

Author: Dr. G.R. Evans ,  G. R. Evans
ISBN: 9781848853768
Format: Hardback
$190.00

In this first general history of monasticism since 1900, Andrea Dickens explores the cloistered communities and...  Read More >>

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