Inhabiting Silence

An Anthropologist in the Cloister

Francesca Sbardella (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-122-3 (ISBN)

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Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in research based on indirect sources. This volume is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns. The author experiences and narrates details of their everyday life that usually remain unseen but contribute to shaping community-building processes and, at the same time, construe the religious woman.

Francesca Sbardella is an anthropologist and historian of religion and a professor at the University of Bologna. Interested in the contemporary European religious fi eld, she deals with total institutions, magical-religious materiality and musealisation processes. She is the co-director of the Research Center Eidola, Materiality, Cognition and History of Religions.

Foreword

Simon Ditchfield

Notes on Text

Prologue

Chapter 1. Relationality of Silence

Chapter 2. The Silence of Their God

Chapter 3. Alone among the Others

Chapter 4. Negated Bodies

Chapter 5. Subjects’ Objectification

Afterword

Fabio Dei

References

Appendix: Photographs in Silence, Photographs of Silence by Franco Zecchin

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	European Anthropology in Translation
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 16 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-122-1 / 1836951221
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-122-3 / 9781836951223
Zustand	Neuware