Reimagining Asceticism in Our Times

Drawing on my fieldwork at the Communities of New Skete and research in the history of Christian monastic tradition, this paper presents a case study in the contemporary transformations of asceticism. Founded in 1966 by a group of ex-Franciscan monks, New Skete was a product of, and an active partic...

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

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