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The Late Antique and early medieval periods saw the growth of monastic communities in the West, as ideas about asceticism and cenobitic monasticism spread from Egypt. At the same time, a strict system of hierarchical gender identity operated in the Roman
Deborah White
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Muhammad and Syrian Monasticism
This paper compares fundamental aspects of religiousness in the Qur’an with that of Syrian Monasticism. Muhammad is a Christian heretic according to Saint John of Damascus, who lived many years in the Umayyad court, where he held important posts.
José María Blázquez Martínez
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Buddhist Pilgrimage at Mount Wutai: Architecture, Landscape, and Religious Heritage
Mount Wutai, China’s earliest Buddhist center, dating to the Han Dynasty’s first century (206 BCE–220 CE), boasts over a hundred monasteries, numerous monuments, and ruins, drawing global pilgrims and travelers. Over its long history, as the geographical
Xiaolu Wang, Xiang Ren, Jan Woudstra
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Monuments of spiritual and material culture of the Kievan Rus state, later periods of national history show that the general principles of Christian monasticism became known here at the same time as the first information about Christianity itself - first
Valeriy Volodymyrovych Klymov
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Omitting regulations on alienation, repentance, lament and contemplation in the final lessons of the first chapter of St. Sava’s Studenica Typikon [PDF]
St. Sava wrote the benefactor’s hagiography of St. Simeon as the first chapter (letter) of the Studenica Typikon. He used Theodore the Studite’s The Small Catechesis 56 as the epilogue of biography which is according to the established rule read
Rakićević Tihon, Arhimandrit +2 more
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Navigating the Stay-at-Home Order with Benedictine Stability
In this article, I argue that Benedictine stability might provide a rational modulation for some people to not only cope with but also flourish during the pandemic vis-à-vis the stay-at-home (SHO) order.
Salim Emil
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Monasticism, its birth, evolution and characteristics. [PDF]
Monasticism is a way of life that officially appeared in the 4th century CE, when many faithful people devoted to God lived a "rigorous" life. However, the cruel persecutions of the Roman emperors in the middle of the 3rd and early 4th centuries CE.
Dr Georgios Vlachos
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Guillaume de Volpiano en Normandie : état des questions
Richard II’s appeal to William of Volpiano, an Italian-Burgundian reformer in 1001, must be regarded as an important stage in the revival of monasticism in the Norman principality.
Véronique Gazeau
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Monachophobia in Russia: Peter the Great and His Influence
The reforms of Russian Tsar Peter I (1682–1725) touched all spheres of life, including the Church. The purpose of this paper is to bring into focus his approach to the reform of monasticism. It reflects on Peter’s personal remarks as reported both by his
Gleb Zapalskii
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Christian monasticism of Ukraine
More than 1000-year-old Institute of Ukrainian Christian Monasteries underwent, like the entire domestic church, the next significant changes caused by not many immanent processes in the church-monastery complex, so much by the radical Ukrainian re ...
Valeriy Volodymyrovych Klymov
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