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The Monk's Cell : Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity.

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, The Monk's Cell shows how religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and intentional living with intel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pryce, Paula
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Christianity > United States.
Contemplation.
Comparative Religion.
RELIGION.
Anthropology.
Christian Theology.
Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Sociology of Religion.
Christianity
Contemplation
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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, The Monk's Cell 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (386 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190680596
0190680598
9780190680619
019068061X