This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south German monastery of Petershausen, it ...

In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He defecated in public, ...

Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda Whether the participation of monks in representative politics is permissible (or proper), has been a ...

Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jews have ... In other words, are they today more like a sect, or a monastic order than a broad-based religious revivalist movement?

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian ...

In a concerning escalation of China’s assimilation policies in Tibet, authorities have forcibly removed young monks from the ...

A sign of why Tibetans resent the Chinese can be seen, at a distance, in the form of brick-and-stone-walled compounds sprinkled across the Tibetan Plateau—the laogai, "reform through labor" camps.

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

Buddhism has traditionally adhered to binary gender roles, particularly in its monastic traditions where ... people in their ...

In a concerning escalation of China's assimilation policies in Tibet, authorities have forcibly removed young monks from the ...

The Monastic World is published by Yale UP Credit ... page after page of rules, reform and subsequent reaction. This is a masterfully wide-ranging historical account, but for lay readers, it ...