Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion
pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and …

Scholars seeking to understand and advance discussion of lived or vernacular religion
commonly work with methods called fieldwork or participant observation. Presence among …

Examining the recent radical re-invention of monastic tradition in the everyday life of New
Monastic Communities, Exploring New Monastic Communities considers how, growing up in …

The study of religion is increasingly being accepted as a legitimate and serious subject of
inquiry by scholars in the social and policy sciences and humanities and those in regional …

From an anthropological and historical perspective, and focusing mainly on the Argentinean
situation, this article analyses Catholic male monasticism in Hispanic America, with the …

The transfer of Sufism as a lived tradition to the Euro-American sphere, which first began in
the early twentieth century, is a notable modern development that has been the subject of …

This chapter presents collaborative translation as essential to the transmission of Buddhism.
It argues that the study of collaborative translation in religious contexts is of benefit both to …

В статье рассмотрены особенности применения включенного наблюдения в таком
малоизученном и труднодоступном поле, как монашеские общины. Исследования …

I adapt Michel Foucault's notion of technologies of the self to carry out a comparative
analysis of two ethnographic cases of contemporary South American shamanisms. In these …

The main goal of the article is to propose an alternative approach towards the monastery,
which relies on overcoming methodological atheism and is rooted in a lived, everyday …