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 ...

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 ...

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

Thousands of men were ordained to the priesthood, and thousands more—men and women—took monastic vows ... Church become a potent force for reform, speaking truth to the Kremlin's power?

Chittister, a Benedictine nun from the vanguard of the Catholic reform movement ... hermit who’s known as the “father of Western monasticism. Benedictine nun and activist Chittister (The ...

These manuscripts contain principally the prayer texts for the celebration of the Mass, a ceremony which stood at the centre of monastic life in this period ... Orient at De Gruyter Space, Image, and ...

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

These manuscripts contain principally the prayer texts for the celebration of the Mass, a ceremony which stood at the centre of monastic life in this period ... what drove spiritual reform and what ...