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Contemporary Monastic Economy: A Sociological Perspective Across Continents

Contemporary Monastic Economy: A Sociological Perspective Across Continents

Jonveaux, Isabelle

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion

Religion General CatholicismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032073365
ISBN13: 9781032073361
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 2 2023
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries engage with the capitalist world economy via a model which aims less at 'performance' per se, than at the fulfilment of human and religious values.

Based on fieldwork across several countries in Europe, Africa and South America, it explores not only the daily work and economy in monastic communities in their tensions with religious life, but also the new interest from society in monastic products or monastic management. With attention to present trends in monastic economy, including the growth of ecology and the role of monasteries in the social and economic development of their localities, the author demonstrates that monastic economy consists not solely in the subsistence of religious communities outside the world, but in economic activity that has a real impact on its local or even more global environment, in part through transnational networks of monasteries.

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