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Cloister and Community : Life Within a Carmelite Monastery
by: Mary Jo Weaver
Product Information
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher: Indiana University Press (September 2002)
ISBN: 0253341841
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This book is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and reborn as a reform movement for women religious by Teresa of Avila in the 16th century. Carmelite nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but the view that one must 'leave the world' to find sacred space has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is sacred space.
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