Learning the 'Science of Feelings': Religious Training in Eastern Christian Monasticism

Ethnos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-251

  Naumescu, Vlad ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Eastern Christianity; hesychasm; Imagination; monasticism; ontogeny; religious transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864008087     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2011.595809     Document Type: Article

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