ISBN : 9780190680589
Based on nearly four years of research among semi-cloistered Christian monastics and a dispersed network of non-monastic Christian contemplatives around the United States, 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.
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Portico Finding a Way to the Door of American Contemplative Christianity; Chapter 2: Antechapel Gathering and Grounding Contemplative Christians in Pluralistic Society; Chapter 3: Grille Silence and Seclusion: Contemplative Environments of Interiority and Receptivity; Chapter 4: Gate Stabilities, Innovations, Diversities; Chapter 5: Choir Silence DT Stillness DT Movement DT Sound: Ritual, Attention, and Refinement of the Senses; Chapter 6: Sacristy Prayer without Ceasing: The Ritualization of Everyday Life; Chapter 7: Sanctuary The Person as Icon: American Christian Contemplative Ways of Knowing; Chapter 8: Cell The Porous Self: Community and Intersubjectivity from the Inner Room; Diagrams; Formula for Phenomenological Intersubjectivity; Photograph Gallery; Glossary
