Religious communities and monasticism Books

Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the...

The word Guru is easy to explain.Gu means darkness and Ru means light.So Guru means going from darkness to light and therefore whenever you tune into the teachers around you, you are moving from darkness into lightMaybe, it's just a bit of learning about...

This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life, as expressed through clothes. Clothes are often seen as an extension of us as humans, a determinant of who we are and how we experience and interact...

This is a book about the tensions between Christian ideals of love and the concrete realities of everyday monastic life. Based on a study of Cistercian monasteries in France, it develops a novel conceptualization of fraternal relations and addresses how...