The monk's cell : ritual and knowledge in American contemplative Christianity / Paula Pryce.

9780190680619 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

BR515

277.3

Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives around the United States, this book shows how religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and intentional living with intellectual study and intensive contemplative practices in an effort to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and experiencing the world.

Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives around the United States, this book shows how religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and intentional living with intellectual study and intensive contemplative practices in an effort to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and experiencing the world.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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