The Convent: Community, Prison, or Task Force?
Roman Catholic convents are compared with villages and cities (vills), with prisons, and with formal organizations. Interview data are provided for a Trappist monastery and a teaching convent. These systems are distinguished sharply both from prisons (especially in the lack of force) and vills (part...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1969]
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| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1969, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 140-151 |
| Further subjects: | B
Prisons
B Abbots B Communities B Convents B Formal Organization B Nuns B Catholicism B Monasteries B Prisoners |
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