Peter Day. A Dictionary of Religious Orders.(Book Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

London: Burns and Oates, 2001. i+ 45. pp. $35.00.

RELIGIOUS ORDERS have existed in the Christian tradition since the founding of the earliest monasteries in the first centuries after Christ. Over these many years religious life has taken on different forms ranging from monasticism in the strictest sense to orders who live and work primarily in the public arena and serve the many and varying needs of people. How many orders there have been over these many centuries and the names and characteristics of these communities are difficult pieces of information to come by, if it is ...

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