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

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.
Christianity
Contemplation
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Portico, finding a way to the door of American contemplative Christianity
  • Antechapel, gathering and grounding contemplative Christians in pluralistic society
  • Grille, silence and seclusion: contemplative environments of interiority and receptivity
  • Gate, stabilities, innovations, diversities
  • Choir, silence, stillness, movement, sound: ritual, attention, and refinement of the senses
  • Sacristy, prayer without ceasing: the ritualization of everyday life
  • Sanctuary, the person as icon: American Christian contemplative ways of knowing
  • Cell, the porous self: community and intersubjectivity from the inner room.

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