EAN: 9783643148759

BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND SECLUSION KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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