In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions. It investigates, based on literature and other s

This volume focuses on the Catholic tradition of consecrated life (vita religiosa) from the High Middle Ages to the present. It gathers papers by authors from v

This book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries engage with the c

Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms a

What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an