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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Monastic Order"”.
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A Modern Advaita-Vedāntin: Locating Swami Chinmayananda and His Understanding of Consciousness in the Context of Scripture and the Contemporary World
… philosophy and the head of Chinmayananda’s monastic order, Śaṅkara (788-820 CE), and locates Chinmayananda and his work within the contemporaneous and ongoing dialogue regarding Hinduism. Understanding that the Upaniṣads are cryptic in nature and that we need a lens through which we can …
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Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement
… protests: Nipponzan Myohoji, a Japanese Buddhist monastic order, and the Catholic Worker, a lay movement that assists the poor and homeless. The case studies are: the 50th anniversary Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March; Catholic Worker protests in Washington, DC, on the anniversaries of the …
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Crisis discourse, response, and structural contradictions in Thai Buddhism, 1990-2003
… posed and discussed in social, academic and monastic circles in Thailand over the past decade, a questioning which intensified after the 1997 Asian economic crash that began in Thailand. However, despite the often intense attention paid in these circles to the claimed crisis in the …
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"On Earth as It Is in Heaven?" The Creation of the Bastides of Southwest France
… partly as a consequence of the devastation in order to fulfill the need for new settlements. Because of this history of heresy, many bastides were built on former Cathar lands and utilized a strong stamp of authority through naming practice and the development of over-large church …
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Processing Piety and the Materiality of Spiritual Mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539
… religious women and men. I argue that Brigittine monasticism, and that of Syon in particular, was uniquely attuned to metaphors and meanings of materiality, which enabled the abbey to transform the women’s mundane material life of food, clothing, architecture, work, finance, and even bureaucracy, …