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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Definitions
2 Differences
Withdrawal and renunciation
Regimentation and routinization
3 Rules, social organization, and gender
How resocialization starts: Buddhist and Christian monastic rites of ordination/initiation
Early Buddhist monastic codes as form-of-life
Early Christian monastic codes as form-of-life
The limits of monastic obedience
4 Saints and spirituality
Defining ‘sainthood’
Lives of monastic saints and ethics of imitation
Ascetic saints, spiritual combat, and the making of monks
5 Spaces real and imagined
The archaeology of monasteries
Imagining monastic spaces and landscapes
6 A global phenomenon in the contemporary world
Religion, nation, and monastic identity
From monastic dialogues to hybrid monasticisms: the making and unmaking of modern religion
References
Further reading
Index
Social Media
Kabbalah
Christian Ethics
Catholicism
Paganism
Religion in America
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