Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working out Frugality and Thrift in Two Czech Postsocialist Monasteries

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800734623" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800734623</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800734623" target="_blank" >10.3167/9781800734623</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working out Frugality and Thrift in Two Czech Postsocialist Monasteries
Original language description
Since 2000, a few monasteries in Czech Republic have been reestablished after their almost complete suppression in the eighteen century and then being rendered illegal during the socialist regime. In Benedictine monasteries the monks have had to reinterpret what it means to be a monastic community in the twenty - first century. that follows an ancient, sixth-century rule. In this chapter, based on fieldwork in two monasteries, I focus on how they were working out the best response to the Regula's directives on frugality and thrift, which might, at first sight, seem to be at odds with other moral imperatives associated with care for people, land, and the monastery itself. I explore below how the monastic communities worked out this tension between economic and spiritual logics in practice by at once distinguishing between different domains (spiritual and economic), scales (e.g., the individual soul, the monastic community, regional stewardship), and publics (guests, pilgrims, the local secular community, the public-at-large), uniting them through a shared adherence to a sense of the golden mean.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-08512S" target="_blank" >GA19-08512S: Dynamics of the churches´ moral economies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the context of restitutions and separation of church and state</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Thrift and its Paradoxes : From Domestic to Political Economy
ISBN
978-1-80073-462-3
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
117-140
Number of pages of the book
222
Publisher name
Berghahn Books
Place of publication
New York, Oxford
UT code for WoS chapter
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