Loud internal life in a silent community: Towards lived aspects of religious life in a cloistered, female monastery
The aim of this article is to present the results of a sociological study on everyday life within a female cloistered monastery. This is a radical form of religious life, highly routinised, distanced from the outside world and conducted in community yet in almost total silence. By elaborating upon t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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In: |
Social compass
Year: 2020, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 410-427 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Convent
/ Inwardness
/ Everyday life
/ Religious identity
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RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
Further subjects: | B
Lived Religion
B féminin B Monasticism B female cloistered monastery B Monachisme B monastères religion vécue |
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Summary: | The aim of this article is to present the results of a sociological study on everyday life within a female cloistered monastery. This is a radical form of religious life, highly routinised, distanced from the outside world and conducted in community yet in almost total silence. By elaborating upon the concepts of everyday and lived religion, the scope of our examination complements dominant sociological approaches to the study of this religious phenomenon. By addressing the following research question: ‘Do cloistered monasteries de-individualise and totally regulate the life of nuns?’, we discuss selected aspects of everyday life in the institution and its contemporary transformations related to, among other things, new communication technologies and new generations of nuns. We show that in this highly institutionalised place nuns remain reflexive individuals. Le but de cet article est de présenter les résultats de notre étude sociologique sur la vie quotidienne dans un monastère féminin, prônant une forme de vie religieuse radicale, très routinière, éloignée du monde extérieur et menée dans une communauté vivant dans un silence presque total. En développant les concepts de religion quotidienne et vécue (everyday and lived religion), la portée de notre analyse complète les approches sociologiques dominantes pour étudier ce phénomène religieux. En abordant la question de recherche suivante: les monastères cloîtrés désindividualisent-ils et réglementent-ils totalement la vie des religieuses?, nous discutons de certains aspects de la vie quotidienne dans cette institution et ses transformations contemporaines liées, entre autres aux nouvelles technologies de la communication et aux nouvelles générations de religieuses. Nous montrons que, dans ce lieu hautement institutionnalisé, les religieuses restent des personnes réflexives. |
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ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768620907567 |