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Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
The project focuses on the subject matter of orthodox monastic tradition, monastic culture and its anthropological, theological and spiritual particularities. It approaches the issue of the practice of contemporary female monasticism by involving the theme of corporeality and by considering the body as a resumptive point of monastery life and monastic spirituality. Consequently, research attempts to answer the questions such as: how everyday monastic practice, specified through the worship, spiritual authorities, canonical tradition and informal rules, constitutes self-processes and forms self-perception; how body learns, feels, responds and experiences religious practices; how nuns actions transform space and time altering the symbolic structuring of their world; how nuns actions function as world-making activities; which bodily practices are being used to verify and represent certain monastic virtue; what is the importance of social structure in which the self-world and self-God relationships are individuated and lived.
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Universität Erfurt
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt