Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism. A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Livia Kohn. University of Hawai’i Press, 2003, 344pp., hb. $47.00. ISBN-13: 9780824826512.

Authors

  • Wilhelm Dupré

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v13i3.362

Keywords:

protomonasticism, female equality, motives, liminal

References

Juergensmeyer, Mark. 1990. The Monastic Syndrome in the Comparative Study of Culture. In Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Tradition, edited by Austin B. Creel and Vasudha Narayanan, 541–561. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen.

Silber, Ilana. 1995. Virtuosi, Charisma, and Social Order: A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Turner, Victor. 1969. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago, IL: Aldine.

Weckham, George. 1987. Monasticism: An Overview. In Encyclopedia of Religions, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan.

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Published

2010-12-19

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2010)

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Dupré, W. (2010). Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism. A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Livia Kohn. University of Hawai’i Press, 2003, 344pp., hb. $47.00. ISBN-13: 9780824826512. Implicit Religion, 13(3), 362-366. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v13i3.362