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A Book of Silence

2010-09-01 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2010-09-01
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 420/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Book of Silence by : Sara Maitland

Download or read book A Book of Silence written by Sara Maitland. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).

For the Sake of Silence

2011-06-27 Fiction
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Release : 2011-06-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 733/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis For the Sake of Silence by : Michael Cawood-Green

Download or read book For the Sake of Silence written by Michael Cawood-Green. This book was released on 2011-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a remote mission station a monk buries the heart of his Superior beneath the great iron cross overlooking the no-man’s-land between the colonies of Natal and the Cape. He then begins to write his own account of his dead leader and friend Abbott Franz Pfanner, charismatic leader of the Trappists in South Africa and much mythologised founder of Mariannhill monastery and its chain of missions. Under Pfanner, Mariannhill became one of the largest abbeys in the world, but only at a terrible price. The narrator of this extraordinary tale is witness to a story that ranges from Austria to Bosnia, Natal to East Griqualand. Aptly named after Joseph of Cupertino, the Holy Fool and Gaper, his attempt at proclaiming the sins of others and confessing his own draws the reader into a vivid sense both of the silent life of the Trappists and the storm that breaks as Mariannhill drifts into the world of words. Here faith, contemplation and grace become intimately intermingled with demonic possession, madness, even murder.

Silence

2019-01-15 History
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Release : 2019-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Silence by : Jane Brox

Download or read book Silence written by Jane Brox. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the “dazzling epic”* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind—in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for silence deepened even as he faced his obligation to speak out against war. This fascinating history of ideas also explores the influence the monastic cell had on one of society’s darkest experiments in silence: Eastern State Penitentiary. Conceived of by one of the Founding Fathers and built on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the penitentiary’s early promulgators imagined redemption in imposed isolation, but they badly misapprehended silence’s dangers. Finally, Brox’s rich exploration of silence’s complex and competing meanings leads us to imagine how we might navigate our own relationship with silence today, for the transformation it has always promised, in our own lives. *Time

The Year of Silence

1989 Fiction
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Release : 1989
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 814/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Year of Silence by : Madison Smartt Bell

Download or read book The Year of Silence written by Madison Smartt Bell. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coenobium

2021-10-15 Religion
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Release : 2021-10-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Coenobium by : Michael Casey, OSCO

Download or read book Coenobium written by Michael Casey, OSCO. This book was released on 2021-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation of the deeper meanings of cenobitic life, taking into account the changes in both theory and practice that have occurred in his lifetime. He invites his readers, especially monks and nuns, to reflect on their own experiences of community as a means of seeing a path forward into the future. Many of the key components of monastic community have kept the same names for more than a millennium. In an age of paradigm shift, Michael Casey invites readers to examine these essential practices of community life and to ask how they might be envisioned in a way that speaks to our contemporaries.

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