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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1516: 'Entangled' Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Christianity: A Comparison with Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Research Project 'Religious Movements & Communication: Medium, Worldview & Social Integration' / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Organiser:Toshio Ohnuki, Faculty of Letters, Okayama University / Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden
Moderator/Chair:Emilia Jamroziak, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 1516-aEntanglements and Self-Transformation: The Case of Cistercian Pastoral Care
(Language: English)
Toshio Ohnuki, Faculty of Letters, Okayama University / Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1516-bA Reconsideration of Jesuit Modernity from the Entangled Perspective
(Language: English)
Kazuhisa Takeda, School of Political Science & Economics, Meiji University, Tokyo
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1516-cEntanglements in the Buddhism of Medieval Japan: Sects, Doctrines, and Pastoral Care
(Language: English)
Hitoshi Karikome, Faculty of Human Studies, Shujitsu University, Okayama
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract

This session will attempt to understand the history of Christian monasticism not based on the developmental model, but as an 'entangled' history of interactions across the periods and forms of monasticism. Comparing the Cistercians and the Jesuits with special reference to the Buddhist sects in medieval Japan, the process of self-transformation through the contact with ordinary people, influenced by the monastic norms inherited from the past, will be analysed.