The Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and Eastern Europe: Sociological Insights

ISBN-13: 9780367355548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 180 str.

Stefania Palmisano; Isabelle Jonveaux; Marcin Jewdokimow

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 (1945–2000)  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