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Index
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829: Experiment in Silence
Man of Sorrows
Benjamin Rush’s Vision
“Good By Discipline”
John Haviland’s Star of Solitudes
The Monastic World: A History of Silence
In Proportion
Speech and Silence
Thomas Merton: Silence and The World
Measures of Time
The Voices of the Pages
The Great Silence
Philadelphia: Darkening the Dark
Night in Stone
“I Get Up and Hammer My Leather”
Punishment Within Punishment
So That It “May Uplift”
Time Again
The Silence of Women
Silencing Silence
“Or Perhaps the Women . . .”
Monastic Women: More Shadow Than Light
The Ends of Silence
Thomas Merton: Questioning Silence
The Monastic World: What Remains
The Prison Cell in Our Time
Intervals of Silence
Coda
In Ruins
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Note
Notes
Permissions
Index
Sample Chapter from BRILLIANT
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