Dear All,
I'm happy to announce the publication of my book, *The Monk's Cell: Ritual
and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity* (Oxford University
Press, 2018). If you are at the AAA meetings in San Jose, come by the OUP
table to take a look and get a 40% discount!
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Description:
The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer
it set themselves to the arduous task of self-reformation through rigorous
study and practice, learned through the teachings of monks and nuns and the
writings of ancient Christian mystics, often in isolation from family and
friends. Those who are dedicated can spend hours every day in meditation,
prayer, liturgy, and study. Why do they come? Indeed, how do they find
their way to the door at all?
Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian
monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives
across the United States and around the globe, *The Monk's Cell* shows how
religious practitioners in both settings combined social action and
intentional living with intellectual study and intensive contemplative
practices in an effort to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and
experiencing the world. Organized by the metaphor of a seeker journeying
towards the inner chambers of a monastic chapel, *The Monk's Cell* uses
innovative "intersubjective fieldwork" methods to study these opaque,
interiorized, often silent communities, in order to show how practices like
solitude, chant, contemplation, attention, and a paradoxical capacity to
combine ritual with intentional "unknowing" develop and hone a powerful
sense of communion with the world.
--
Dr. Paula Pryce
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
*The Monk's Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative
Christianity* (Oxford, 2018)
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