內容簡介
內容簡介 This volume is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns. The author experiences and narrates details of their everyday life that usually remain unseen but contribute to shaping community-building processes and, at the same time, construe the religious woman.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Francesca Sbardella is an anthropologist and historian of religion and a professor at the University of Bologna. Interested in the contemporary European religious fi eld, she deals with total institutions, magical-religious materiality and musealisation processes. She is the co-director of the Research Center Eidola, Materiality, Cognition and History of Religions.