Transcending Methodological Atheism and Not Thinking Transcendentally: Nuns' Understanding of Life within the Cloistered Monastery

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 religion approach. In order to do so, in the first section, I reconstruct Peter Berger's methodological atheism, discuss...

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Main Author: Jewdokimow, Marcin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2019]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 70-84
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Berger, Peter L. 1929-2017, The Sacred Canopy / Berger, Peter L. 1929-2017, The many altars of modernity / Methodology / Atheism / Monastery / Religious experience / Transcendence
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B Monasticism
B female cloistered monastery
B lived, everyday religion
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