Monastic studies in present and future tense as seen through Johnston's Encyclopedia of Monasticism and beyond.(Encyclopedia of Monasticism)

Utopian Studies | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

William M. Johnston, ed. Encyclopedia of Monasticism, 2 vols. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. xxxiv + 1556 pp. $295.00.

Introduction

THERE IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA of monasticism, a two-volume megawork edited by William M. Johnston, retired historian from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. Johnston has authored several books on 19th and 20th century intellectual history and a guide to reference books in religion, where he noted the need for a comprehensive encyclopedia of monasticism and then undertook the work himself (Recent ...

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