Monasticism in Modern Times

Isabelle Jonveaux is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Graz, Austria. After completing her doctoral research about monastic economy in modern monasteries in Europe at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and at the University of Trento (Italy), she continued post-doctoral research about asceticism in Catholic monasticism. She is currently preparing her habilitation (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) about secular asceticism and aspirations to simple life. Publications: Le Monastére au travail. Paris: Bayard, 2011, and Dieu en ligne. Paris: Bayard, 2013. Stefania Palmisano is Lecturer in the Sociology of Organization and of the Sociology of Religious Organizations at the University of Turin; Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion in Lancaster University (UK) and at the Department of Sociology in Boston University. She is currently writing a book entitled Exploring New Monastic Communities to be published by Routledge.

• Introduction. Monasticism: Crucial QuestionsIsabelle Jonveaux and Stefania PalmisanoPart I: Monasticism in Transition: New Challenges and Globalization Chapter 1. The Benedictine Tradition since Vatican II: Catholic Monasticism in the Modern WorldAndrew P. LynchChapter 2. Current Mutations of the Monastic Novitiate: Emerging Institutional Imperatives, New Forms of ObedienceAnna Clot-GarrellChapter 3. Does Monasticism Still Have a Future? Demographical Evolution and Monastic Identity in Europe and Outside EuropeIsabelle JonveauxChapter 4. Economic Management under a Vow of Poverty: Monastic Management in Burkina FasoKatrin LangewieschePart II: Monasticism, as Open Door to Society?Chapter 5. Visiting Abbeys: Changing Monastic Identities and the Attraction of AbbeysLouis van TongerenChapter 6. Holy Holidays: Why is Monastic Tourism Attractive? Insight from Italian Catholic MonasticismMonica GIlli and Stefania PalmisanoChapter 7. Prayer in an American Cistercian MonasteryWilliam L. SmithPart III: From Monasticism to Monasticisms and New Forms of Spirituality Chapter 8. A Worldly Monasticism: New Catholic Spiritualities and Secularisation of Monastic Culture in Latin AmericaGustavo Andrés LudueñaChapter 9. New Monasticism as ‘Reflexive Spirituality’: A Case Study of the Simple WayLaura F. TennenhouseChapter 10. The Community of the Resurrection: A Case Study in the (Re)Emergence/Evolution of Anglican/English MonasticismJanet Eccles and David Simon Chapter 11. The Everyday Life of Monks: English Benedictine Identity and the Perf