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In contrast with the growing belief in society that traditional religious institutions are losing credibility, there has been renewed interest in monasteries going beyond what is strictly defined as religious. There are, for example, increasingly numerous requests for cooking and gardening courses as well as guided tours in monasteries, the appeal of monastic products and media interest in the subject. In parallel with a strong crisis in its recruitment, monasticism in the Western world is experiencing a period of innovation and experiments accompanied by unexpected popularity, as is evidenced by numerous films and publications. We hope that this book will deepen the understanding of the specificity of monastic life in the in the contemporary world, in a religious area, and from a sociological point of view.
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Isabelle Jonveaux, Ph.D. (1983) is post-doc fellow at the University of Graz (Austria) and associated member of the CEIFR Paris. She has published monographs and articles about monasticism, including Le monastère au travail (Bayard 2011) and Dieu en ligne (Bayard 2013).
Stefania Palmisano is Lecturer in the Sociology of Organization at the University of Turin, Italy, where she teaches the Sociology of Religious Organizations. She is Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion in Lancaster University (UK). She also has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology in Boston University (USA). At the moment she is doing research on new monasticism and its relationship with monastic tradition.
Enzo Pace, Professor of sociology of religion at the University of Padua (Italy), Visiting professor at the Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Past-President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. Recent book: "Religion as Communication", (Ashgate 2011).
Contributors include: Salvatore Abbruzzese, Giovanni Dalpiaz, Laurent Denizeau, Francesca Sbardella, Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Kees de Groot, Jos Pieper, Willem Putamn, Maria Hämmerli, Anna Poujeau, Timon Reichl, Caroline Starkey, Florence Galmiche, Maria Chiara Giorda, Javier Gonzàles Dìez, Sara Hejazi, Paul-André Turcotte, and Jean Séguy.
