The Monk's Cell

The Monk's Cell
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780190680589
ISBN-13 : 019068058X
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Book Synopsis The Monk's Cell by : Paula Pryce

Download or read book The Monk's Cell written by Paula Pryce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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