From the Margins of the Colophon: Arab Orthodox Monasticism in Ruins

Abstract This article, drawn from two years of ethnographic fieldwork, traces the temporal articulations of Orthodox Christian monasticism in post-war Lebanon. It recounts one Lebanese monastery’s reinhabitation—founded on the uncanny return of its martyred saints—as evidence of monastic life’s cons...

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Main Author: Eldridge, Aaron Frederick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Exchange
Year: 2020, Volume: 49, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 379-400
IxTheo Classification:KBL Near East and North Africa
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B Lebanon
B Historiography
B Tradition
B Orthodox Christianity
B Temporality
B Asceticism
B ruin
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