The 'Greening' of Christian Monasticism and the Future of Monastic Landscapes in North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3426764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason M Brown (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10070432 |
| OpenAlex | W2961315213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Christian monasticism has an ancient land-based foundation. The desert fathers and later reform movements appealed to the land for sustenance, spiritual metaphor, and as a marker of authentic monastic identity. Contemporary Roman Catholic monastics with this history in mind, have actively engaged environmental discourse in ways that draw from their respective monastic lineages, a process sociologist Stephen Ellingson calls 'bridging'. Though this study is of limited scope, this bridging between monastic lineages and environmental discourse could cautiously be identified with the broader phenomenon of the 'greening' of Christianity. Looking to the future, while the footprint of North American monastic communities is quite small, and their numbers are slowly declining, a variety of conservation-minded management schemes implemented since the 1990s by some communities suggests that the impact will remain for many decades to come
Archaeology · Christianity · Environmental ethics · Lament · Metaphor · Monasticism · Political science · Sociology · Sustenance · Theology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |