The first volume to explore various facets of contemporary change in consecrated religious life in selected central and eastern European countries, this book presents a series of studies of Catholic and Orthodox monasticism, with attention to the impact of modern social and cultural processes on life in the cloister.
The first volume to explore various facets of contemporary change in consecrated religious life in selected Central and Eastern European countries, this book presents a series of studies of Catholic and Orthodox monasticism.
With attention to changes in the economy, everyday life, organisation and social presence of monastic orders, contributors shed light on the impact of 20th and 21st century social and cultural processes – such as communism and its collapse or the growth of new communication technologies – on life in the cloister.
Bringing together research from various locations in Central and Eastern Europe, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, religious studies and theology, with interests in religious orders and transformations of religious life from a social perspective.
1. Introduction
2. Changes in religious life since the 1970s in
quantitative terms situation in the CEE countries in the context of global
transformations
3. Clericalisation and the search for identity in Roman
Catholic religious institutes in Poland at the turn of the 21st century
4.
Female religious congregations in Poland in the face of changes from
Communism to the transformation period (19452000)
5. The economy of Polish
monasteries: Between the charismatic and routinisation stage
6. The
reinvention of tradition: The moral economy of monastic life in the Czech
Republic
7. New Monastic Communities in Poland
8. The presence of religious
orders in Hungarian society
9. Orthodox monasteries as pilgrimage sites in
contemporary Russia
Stefania Palmisano is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin, Italy, and co-editor of Monasticism in Modern Times.
Isabelle Jonveaux is Lecturer of Religious Studies at the Universities of Graz and Linz, Austria, and co-editor of Monasticism in Modern Times.
Marcin Jewdokimow is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and acting Head of the Department of 20th and 21st Century Culture in the Institute of Classical and Cultural Studies at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyski University in Warsaw, Poland. He is the co-editor of A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders: Zooming in on Monasteries.
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