A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders (eBook, ePUB)

Zooming in on Monasteries
Redaktion: Jewdokimow, Marcin; Quartier Osb, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a novel approach the sociological study of religious life. The first book of its kind, it brings together case studies from various locations in Europe to demonstrate what the use of visual methodologies can contribute to social scientific research on religious orders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429626814
• Artikelnr.: 56847449

Autorenporträt

Marcin Jewdokimow is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and acting Head of the Department of 20th and 21st Century Culture in the Institute of Classical and Cultural Studies at Cardinal Stefan Wyszy¿ski University in Warsaw, Poland. He is author of Klasztor w perspektywie socjologicznej: w poszukiwaniu nowego uj¿cia [A Monastery in a Sociological Perspective: Seeking for a New Approach] (2018). Thomas Quartier, OSB teaches ritual and liturgical studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and holds the chair for Monastic Spirituality at KU Leuven, Belgium. The author of numerous books, he is also a postdoctoral research fellow of Titus Brandsma Institute, The Netherlands, Visiting Professor at the Benedictine University Sant' Anselmo in Rome and a monk of St. Willibrord's Abbey in Doetinchem, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Linking monasteries and religious orders with the visual
2. Photographing friars: Visualising the history of changing Dutch
Augustinian identities
3. Nun with a camera: An insider's view (the case of a Russian Orthodox
monastery)
4. One year in a Dominican convent in Sudetenland: Religious community in a
post-atheistic and post-secular situation
5. Shooting monastic identity: Reflections on photography and spiritual
transformation
6. Monastic architecture as a bridge between ecology and spirituality: A
case study of a Benedictine monastery in Clerlande, Belgium
7. The lived spirituality of Czech monasteries through architectural
materiality
8. Outside, inside - monasteries and monasticism in the local environment:
Religion, social memory and economy (the case of Cistercian monasteries in
Poland)
9. Photo-elicitation: Visual methods and monasteries. A few preliminary
considerations and some results