The Monk's Cell
Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 February 2018
- ISBN 9780190680589
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 236x160x25 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 98 illus. 0
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Short description:
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.
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The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to a sometimes arduous task of self-reformation through rigorous study and practice, learned through the teachings of monks and nuns and the writings of ancient Christian mystics, often in isolation from family and friends. Those who are dedicated can spend hours every day in meditation, prayer, liturgy, and study. Why do they come? Indeed, how do they find their way to the door at all?
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. Organized by the metaphor of a seeker journeying towards the inner chambers of a monastic chapel, The Monk's Cell uses innovative "intersubjective fieldwork" methods to study these opaque interiorized, often silent communities, in order to show how practices like solitude, chant, contemplation, attention, and a paradoxical capacity to combine ritual with intentional "unknowing" develop and hone a powerful sense of communion with the world.
For anyone wanting to research the development of non-monastic-based contemplative Christianity in contemporary America, this book would provide an interesting ethnographic/practitioner's reflection on this religious aspect of society.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Portico Finding a Way to the Door of American Contemplative Christianity
Chapter 2: Antechapel Gathering and Grounding Contemplative Christians in Pluralistic Society
Chapter 3: Grille Silence and Seclusion: Contemplative Environments of Interiority and Receptivity
Chapter 4: Gate Stabilities, Innovations, Diversities
Chapter 5: Choir Silence · Stillness · Movement · Sound: Ritual, Attention, and Refinement of the Senses
Chapter 6: Sacristy Prayer without Ceasing: The Ritualization of Everyday Life
Chapter 7: Sanctuary The Person as Icon: American Christian Contemplative Ways of Knowing
Chapter 8: Cell The Porous Self: Community and Intersubjectivity from the Inner Room
Diagrams
Formula for Phenomenological Intersubjectivity
Photograph Gallery
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