| Description |
1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion Series |
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Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Research -- 1 Monastic Economy in its Sociological and Historical Context -- 1 How Can We Define the Monastery From a Sociological Point of View? -- 2 Monastic Economy: A Deep Contradiction in Monastic Life? -- 3 History of the Monastic Economy -- A: Origin of Work in Christian Monasticism -- B: Evolution of the Forms of Monastic Work Throughout History -- C: Development of the Monastic Economy in Europe |
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2 Models of Monastic Economy: Organisation and Sources of Revenue -- 1 Is Autarky Still Possible? -- 2 Presentation of Different Models -- A: Direct Work of Monastics with an Internal Economy of Production -- B: Economy of External Activities or an Externalised Economy -- C: Economy of Patrimony -- D: Economy of Donation -- E: Economy of Aging -- 3 External Influences on the Monastic Economy -- A: Factors of Influence -- B: Origin of the Differences -- 3 Work and Prayer in Monastic Life -- 1 Necessity of Work in Monastic Life? -- A: Sense of Work in Monastic Life |
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B: Specificities of Work in Monastic Life -- 2 The Right Balance Between Work and Prayer -- A: Time Balance in Monastic Life -- B: Body, Work and Stress -- C: Between Priests and Monks: Which Identity? -- 4 Integration of Economic Activity Into Monastic Life -- 1 Models of Integration of Economic Activity Into Monastic Life -- A: Denying Economic Activity -- B: Distance From Economic Activity -- C: Integrating Economic Activity: Strategies of Recomposition -- D: Ex-Post Legitimation: Managing the Money -- 2 Between Negation and Affirmation of Economics |
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A: To Speak About the Econony in Monastic Life -- B: Balancing Performance: Between Economic and Religious Determinants -- C: Is the Monastic Economy a Performant Economy? -- 3 Integrating Lay Employees in Monastic Activities -- 5 Daily Life Economy: What does Monastic Poverty Mean Today? -- 1 Objective Poverty in Monastic Life -- A: Criteria of Objective Poverty in Monastic Communities -- B: Expenditure of Monasteries: Influence of Asceticism? -- 2 Perception of Poverty by Society -- A: Poverty in European Monasteries: Perception of Society -- B: Europe: The Question of Household |
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C: Africa: Which Perception of Poverty? -- 3 Lived Poverty in Daily Monastic Life: A Subjective Dimension? -- A: Monastic Poverty on the Individual Level -- B: Subjective Poverty in Europe -- C: Africa: Living in Monastic Poverty in a Poor Country -- D: Subjective Poverty: Poverty as Spirituality? -- 6 Specificities of Female Monasteries -- 1 Nuns in the Economic History of the Monastery, Near and Far -- 2 Inequalities Between Male and Female Monasteries Concerning Economic Activities -- 3 Characteristics of the Female Monastic Economy -- A: Rentability and Innovation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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B: A Dependence on (Male) Laypeople? |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000888171 |
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1000888177 |
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