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Mealtime at a Tibetan Monastery [PDF]
Gastronomica, 2010 With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above 13,000 feet gave reasons for the monks to eat local meat since other ...
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Leadership and Accountability in Faith‐Based Institutions: Evidence From UK Mosques
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates accountability in religious institutions on the basis of evidence obtained from interviews with relevant parties in UK mosques. We mobilize prior theoretical contention regarding servant leadership and constraints on personal accountability to expose perceptions of seriously deficient discharge outcomes.
Umair Riaz +3 more
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Poznámky ke vnímání řeholního života mezi barokem a osvícenstvím
Theatrum Historiae, 2008 The article deals with the development of attitudes to monasteries, regulars and nuns that can be observed in the minds of the members of baroque society (1650-1750) and of the leaders of intellectual elite in the times of Enlightenment at the end of ...
Jiří Mikulec
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’AuxerreAfter pioneering experiments in 1998-2003, twenty-eight monastic sites in Burgundy and Franche-Comté were the subject of GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) surveys in 2010-2016, in order to identify their surface area, environment and topography – cloister ...
Sébastien Bully, Christian Sapin
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, 2023 Saint Catherine's Monastery (official name: Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai) is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world. Located in Egypt at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was commissioned by the Emperor Justinian I in 565 C.E.
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Buddhist monasteries are a foundational piece of the Buddhist tradition. These monasteries play an important role in shaping the lives of monks and laypeople alike.
Rushing, Bella
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Valuing Medieval Annuities: Were Corrodies Underpriced? [PDF]
Medieval bishops condemned and restricted the sale of corrodies (a type of annuity), partly on the grounds of their perceived unprofitability. The available data on the profitability of corrodies is limited and little analysed, and the episcopal ...
Adrian Bell, Charles Sutcliffe
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Clericalization of the Russian Excursion Tourism
Проект Байкал, 2014 In the modern Russia almost every secular excursion is starting to resemble a religious pilgrimage, while reducing itself to a visit to Orthodox monasteries and temples.
Boris Rodoman
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