Cloister and Community: Life Within a Carmelite Monastery

by Mary Jo Weaver

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Cloister and Community 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 rededicated as a reform movement for women religious in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one must "leave the world" to find...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0253341841

ISBN13:9780253341846

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Length:128 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.9" x 11.2"

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