Search results for “[subject: monasticism]”

• Author(s): Steven Olderr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Monasticism The roots of monasticism may go back as far as 1700 BCE, to ascetic practices in ancient India. Since that time, the...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThe Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to ...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 an...

• Author(s): Kathleen Norris • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: Monasticism A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual co...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryThe history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform...

• Author(s): Cheryl L. Reed • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Monasticism Surprising. Provocative. Honest. For Unveiled, reporter Cheryl Reed interviewed more than 300 nuns of diverse b...

• Author(s): Brian Patrick McGuire • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - History"I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to p...