Between the second, third and fourth centuries the Christian Church produced biographies chronicling the pious undertakings of monks. These hagiographies borrowed from preexisting Greek biographies to distinguish the Christian monk from the pagan holy man. Patricia Cox Miller’s Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man demonstrates how hagiographers adaptation of Greek biographies...

In post-World War II United States, a Holy Cross monk named Herman Zaccarelli viewed Vatican as an opening for the modernising of food in Catholic religious institutions. Brother founded Food Research Center Institutions on campus Stonehill College outside Boston, which ran conferences and seminars monks nuns who sought to change their approach cooking eating. Zaccarelli, product mid-twentieth ...

This study is concerned with an inscription from Mamlukian period discovered by the researcher in eastern Badia of Jordan site called Ghadeer al-Dahab southeast town Al-Safaweabout 50 km. The provides us information about pastured and gathered truffles which reflection to economic situation for Bedouins tribes. inscriber mentioned a name one pilgrims supplication forgiveness him verse poetry as...

Abstract The Legendary ‘The Lives of the Saints’ became a medieval bestseller soon after it was composed in early 15th century. This success due to its simple, standardised language and theological programme aimed at promoting collectively lived spiritality. However, different concepts holiness or narrative elements such as exorbitantly cruel martyrdoms, ascetic isolations mystical excess chall...

J.M. Coetzee and the Art of Change. Life Times Michael K in an Anthropotechnical Perspective The article is attempt to interpret as a work focused on building conversion situation. Conversion understood here, according theory by Rob Wilson, secularized equivalent metanoia. basic theoretical context thought Peter Sloterdijk, who redefines religion spiritual exercise system presents modernity dom...