Religious communities & monasticism books

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Judaism and Collective Life: Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz

Judaism and Collective Life: Self and Community in the...
Author: Aryei Fishman ISBN: 9780415289665 Format: Hardback	$210.00
This work takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in... Read More >>

The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: "An Annotated Translation and Study of the ""Chanyuan Qinggui"""

The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: "An...
Author: Yifa ISBN: 9780824824945 Format: Hardback	$163.68
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Altered Habits: Reconsidering the Nun in Fiction

Altered Habits: Reconsidering the Nun in Fiction
Author: Manuela Mourao ISBN: 9780813024707 Format: Hardback	$170.78
"In a comprehensive analysis of the nun in literature, Manuela Mourao challenges the notion that nuns are """"women... Read More >>

Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World
Author: Nicholas Howe ISBN: 9780268028626 Format: Hardback	$97.68
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Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio

Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias...
Author: Catherine M. Rokicky ISBN: 9780821414392 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Powerful currents of religious revival and political and social reform swept nineteenth-century America. Many people... Read More >>

Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio

Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias...
Author: Catherine M. Rokicky ISBN: 9780821414385 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture

John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture...
Author: Steven D. Driver ISBN: 9780415936682 Format: Hardback	$221.00
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Called to Make Present the Charism: Ongoing Formation for Secular Franciscans Based on the Footnotes of the SFO Rule

Called to Make Present the Charism: Ongoing Formation...
Author: Benet A Fonck ISBN: 9780819909992 Format: Paperback	$21.95
SFO Resource Library, Vol. 5 Originally published in the SFO continuing education bulletin of the Sacred Heart... Read More >>

The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater

The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery:...
Author: Anning Jing ISBN: 9789004119253 Format: Hardback	$530.64
An investigation of the myth, history, inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, painting, iconological program, festival,... Read More >>

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian...
Author: Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Classics Rebecca Krawiec (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) ISBN: 9781280472282 Format: Electronic book text	$213.84
This title depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE.... Read More >>

How Far To Follow: The Martyrs of Atlas

How Far To Follow: The Martyrs of Atlas
Author: Bernardo Olivera, OCSO ISBN: 9780879076979 Format: Paperback	$34.19
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Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in...
Author: Heather Lynn Claussen ISBN: 9780472112210 Format: Hardback	$198.00
An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines Read More >>

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind...
Author: Sid Brown ISBN: 9780791450963 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence

Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence
Author: Bruce Davis ISBN: 9780595190553 Format: Paperback	$42.11
There is a part of each of us that is a monk or a mystic. We yearn for perfect peace yet live our lives far removed... Read More >>

Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture

Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century...
Author: Anne M. Blackburn, PhD ISBN: 9780691070445 Format: Hardback	$155.00
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Buddhism in the Western Himalaya

Buddhism in the Western Himalaya
Author: Laxman,S. Thakur ISBN: 9780195647761 Format: Hardback	$65.00
This book presents an analysis of one of the earliest surviving Buddhist temples in the western Himalaya. The author... Read More >>

Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform: Lotharingia c.850-1000

Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform: Lotharingia...
Author: John Nightingale (, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780198208358 Format: Hardback	$307.95
The role of monasteries in the early medieval period is explored in this study of the relations between monasteries... Read More >>

The Gift to be Simple: Life in Amish Country

The Gift to be Simple: Life in Amish Country
Author: Bill Coleman ISBN: 9780811831185 Format: Hardback	$66.00
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Small Communities in Religious Life: Making Them Work

Small Communities in Religious Life: Making Them Work...
Author: Catherine Widdicombe ISBN: 9780718830120 Format: Paperback	$139.92
Written from experience, this self-help manual gives practical, accessible advice for those involved in the running... Read More >>

In the Spirit of Happiness: Spiritual Wisdom for Living

In the Spirit of Happiness: Spiritual Wisdom for Living...
Author: Monks of New Skete ISBN: 9780316606943 Format: Paperback	$58.05
Now in paperback, the bestselling authors of ""How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend"" distill their collective spiritual... Read More >>

Waking Up: A Week Inside a ZEN Monastery

Waking Up: A Week Inside a ZEN Monastery
Author: Jack Maguire ISBN: 9781893361133 Format: Hardback	$44.95
Takes us inside the monastery walls to present details of what it's like: the physical work, common meals, conversations... Read More >>

The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England

The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England...
Author: Joseph A. Gribbin ISBN: 9780851157993 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo

Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery...
Author: S.J. Clackson ISBN: 9780900416750 Format: Hardback	$258.72
This text edits and analyzes 66 6th-9th century Coptic and Greek texts concerning the Monastery of Apa Apollo on... Read More >>

I Give You My Life

I Give You My Life
Author: Ayya Khema ISBN: 9781570625718 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Born Ilse Kussel in Berlin in 1923, Ayya grew up in a prosperous Jewish family that was broken up by Nazi terror.... Read More >>

The Bahá'í: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity

The Bahá'í: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity...
Author: Michael McMullen ISBN: 9780813528366 Format: Paperback	$76.56
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