TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Between community and seclusion : defining the religious life in the South Asian traditions, in Buddhism, and in Eastern and Western Christianity
T2  - Vita regularis
A2  - Breitenstein, Mirko, toimittaja
A2  - Melville, Gert, toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Münster
PB  - Lit
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5536667
AB  - "The fact that certain cultures and religions produced a way of life which, for the sake of self-perfection, expected its adherents to withdraw from various obligations to the world and to enter into the organisational structure of a monastic community obviously represents a constant anthropological foundation. The spectrum of monastic life within these various cultures was extremely diverse in its manifestations. It was the result of a high degree of flexibility in the face of constantly changing ideas about piety, social needs and concepts of community and individuality. However, an interreligious study with the aim of a scholarly analysis of comparable key elements across different monastic cultures does not exist yet. The editors as well as the authors of this volume are particularly interested in how monastic life was realised communally in many ways according to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the understanding of community and civilisation and therefore made a decisive contribution to the formation of our cultural identity"-- Back cover.
SN  - 978-3-643-14875-9 nidottu
SN  - 3643148755 nidottu
KW  - Monastic and religious life : Comparative studies.
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders.
KW  - Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
KW  - Hindu monasticism and religious orders.
KW  - Monastic and religious life.
ER  -