Religious communities & monasticism books

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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist...
Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel ISBN: 9780295988498 Format: Paperback	$42.95
Examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries... Read More >>

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist...
Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel ISBN: 9780295988481 Format: Hardback	$126.95
Examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries... Read More >>

The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts

The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese...
Author: Meir Shahar ISBN: 9780824833497 Format: Paperback	$66.00
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Monasteries and Monastic Orders

Monasteries and Monastic Orders
Author: Rolf Toman , Achim Bednorz ISBN: 9783833140709 Format: Hardback	$131.97
The book covers the history of monasticism from its origins in late antiquity through its apex in the High Middle... Read More >>

Monasteries and Monastic Orders: 2000 Years of Christian Art and Culture

Monasteries and Monastic Orders: 2000 Years of Christian...
Author: Rolf Toman , Achim Bednorz ISBN: 9780841603455 Format: Hardback	$184.67
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Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700

Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700
Author: Silvia Evangelista (, lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia) , Silvia Evangelisti (Lecturer in Early Modern History, School of History, University of East Anglia) ISBN: 9780199532056 Format: Paperback	$50.95
The fascinating story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards.... Read More >>

The Book Of Governors: Accounts of the Lives of the Holy Men and Monks of the Monastery of Beth Abhe

The Book Of Governors: Accounts of the Lives of the...
Author: E.A. Wallis Budge , Bishop of Marga Thomas ISBN: 9780710308269 Format: Hardback	$410.00
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire

Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire
Author: Edwin Mullins ISBN: 9781933346175 Format: Paperback	$24.95
A monastery like no other, this is Cluny's story from humble beginnings in the early Middle Ages, through centuries... Read More >>

A Community Called Taize: A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation

A Community Called Taize: A Story of Prayer, Worship...
Author: Jason Brian Santos , Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu ISBN: 9780830835256 Format: Paperback	$38.79
Jason Brian Santos takes us on a tour of the Taize community, one of the world's first ecumenical monastic orders,... Read More >>

The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit: At the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt

The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit: At the Monastery...
Author: William Lyster ISBN: 9780300118476 Format: Hardback	$186.95
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John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus

John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius...
Author: Cornelia B. Horn , Jr Robert R. Phenix ISBN: 9781589832008 Format: Paperback	$137.15
This book makes available for the first time in English important works by the anti-Chalcedonian historian and biographer... Read More >>

Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico

Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico...
Author: Asunción Lavrin ISBN: 9780804752831 Format: Hardback	$109.95
Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico. Read More >>

Die Gelehrten Braute Christi: Geistesleben Und Bucher Der Nonnen Im Hochmittelalter: Vortrage

Die Gelehrten Braute Christi: Geistesleben Und Bucher...
Author: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer , Helmar Hartel ISBN: 9783447057561 Format: Paperback	$36.96
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Demythologizing Celibacy: Practical Wisdom from Christian and Buddhist Monasticism

Demythologizing Celibacy: Practical Wisdom from Christian...
Author: William Skudlarek, OSB ISBN: 9780814629475 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns

The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns...
Author: Catherine Whitney , Susie Breck ISBN: 9781423352877 Format: Audio	$65.87
After following the daily routine of nuns in a Dominican community for a year, Whitney offers a rare inside look... Read More >>

The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns

The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns...
Author: Catherine Whitney , Susie Breck ISBN: 9781423352891 Format: Audio	$103.62
After following the daily routine of nuns in a Dominican community for a year, Whitney offers a rare inside look... Read More >>

Virgin Mary, Monotheism and Sacrifice, The.

Virgin Mary, Monotheism and Sacrifice, The.
Author: Adjunct Professor Cleo McNelly Kearns (Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey) ISBN: 9781281717047 Format: Undefined	$330.00
The Virgin Mary plays a major - although often paradoxical - role in the incarnation and crucifixion and in the... Read More >>

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and...
Author: Monica Lindberg Falk ISBN: 9788776940195 Format: Paperback	$72.32
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Akten Deutscher Bischöfe Zur Lage Der Kirche 1918-1933: Teilband I: 1918-1925 /Teilband II: 1926-1933

Akten Deutscher Bischöfe Zur Lage Der Kirche 1918-1933:...
Author: Heinz Hürten ISBN: 9783506764027 Format: Hardback	$686.40
Vol. 1-3 edited by Bernhard Stasiewski; vol. 4-6 edited by Ludwig Volk; v. 51, pt. 1-2 edited by Heinz Hèurten.... Read More >>

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
Author: Alfred Wesley Wishart ISBN: 9781426468636 Format: Paperback	$65.34
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A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
Author: Alfred Wesley Wishart ISBN: 9781426469459 Format: Paperback	$70.62
The aim of this volume is to sketch the history of the monastic institution from its origin to its overthrow in... Read More >>

Kadampa Sites of Phempo: A Guide to Some Early Buddhist Monasteries in Central Tibet

Kadampa Sites of Phempo: A Guide to Some Early Buddhist...
Author: Hans-Ulrich Roesler , Ulrike Roesler ISBN: 9789993369530 Format: Paperback	$72.42
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Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious LIfe

Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in...
Author: Jamil M. Abun-Nasr ISBN: 9781850658559 Format: Hardback	$95.00
The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam.... Read More >>

Shoots Out of Eden: Christian Monastic Gardening in the British Isles

Shoots Out of Eden: Christian Monastic Gardening in...
Author: Francis Beswick ISBN: 9781845492205 Format: Paperback	$63.36
This book examines the Christian thinking expressed in monastic gardens in the mediaeval period and specific types... Read More >>

Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts

Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the...
Author: Mrs. Anna Jameson ISBN: 9780548016183 Format: Hardback	$147.71
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