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Author Jewdokimow, Marcin

Title A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders : Zooming in on Monasteries
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion Ser
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Linking monasteries and religious orders with the visual; Why apply the visual essay to the topic of forms of consecrated life?; Content of the book; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Photographing friars: Visualising the history of changing Dutch Augustinian identities; Introduction; Monastic revival: 1886-1920; The invention of an Augustinian spirituality: 1920-1950; Reform: 1950-1970
Disseminators of Augustinian spirituality: 1970-presentConcluding remarks; The photographs; Notes; References; Further reading; Chapter 3 Nun with a camera: An insider's view (the case of a Russian Orthodox monastery); Introduction; Daily routines; To see vs to be seen; Notes; References; Further reading; Chapter 4 One year in a Dominican convent in Sudetenland: Religious community in a post-atheistic and post-secular situation; Introduction; A year in Jablonné; Discourse of the images; Cyclicity; Agency of the house; Marginality, backstage perspective and intimacy
Why are we here? Whom do we serve?Conclusion: a fruitful non-strategy in post-Christian, post-atheistic and post-secular situations; Notes; References; Further reading; Chapter 5 Shooting monastic identity: Reflections on photography and spiritual transformation; Introduction; Reflecting personal images; Monastic transformation; Monastic photography; Reflective monastic identity; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Monastic architecture as a bridge between ecology and spirituality: A case study of a Benedictine monastery in Clerlande, Belgium; Introduction; Conclusion; Notes; References
Further readingChapter 7 The lived spirituality of Czech monasteries through architectural materiality; Introduction; Czech monasteries: historical and cultural context; Introduction to the monasteries; Two trends: disconnection and connection; Disconnection at three levels of analysis of architectural materiality; Connection at three levels of analysis of architectural materiality; Conclusions I: concerning two trends of connection and disconnection through materiality; Conclusions II: concerning visuality and textuality; Notes; References; Further reading
Chapter 8 Outside, inside -- monasteries and monasticism in the local environment: Religion, social memory and economy (the case of Cistercian monasteries in Poland)1Part I: Visual essay; Part II: Methodological commentary; Notes; References; Further reading; Chapter 9 Photo-elicitation: Visual methods and monasteries. A few preliminary considerations and some results; Introduction; From realist ethnographies to new reflexive and interactive visual methods in the field; Two uses of photography in sociological qualitative research
Notes Visuality, direct analysis of visual data, and indirect analysis of visual data: three analytical devices for comprehending new monasticism and its visual representation through photo-elicitation interviews
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Form Electronic book
Author Quartier, Thomas
ISBN 9780429628450
0429628455