Sonorous Desert : : What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us / / Kim Haines-Eitzen.
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic traditionFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note to Readers and Listeners
- A Personal Prologue
- 1 Listening to the Desert
- 2 Hermits and the Quest for Solitude
- 3 A Way of Silence in a Noisy World
- 4 Monastic Desert Soundscapes
- 5 Echoes in Sacred Canyons
- 6 Ascent at Sonorous Sinai
- 7 Finding Home in the Desert
- Epilogue
- Epilogue
- Desert Monasticism: A Brief Glossary
- A Guide to Monastic Texts
- Notes
- List of Photographs
- List of Recording Locations for Chapter Codas