Chew, Sing C. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 24 (2008) 1, pp. 31-56
that have emerged during different periods of world history when the world system was/is in crisis: Christian monasticism … and Bioregionalism. Besides viewing Christian monasticism as a religious movement that arose in reaction to the turbulent … conditions towards the end of the Roman Empire, I want to argue that Christian monasticism can also be conceived as a social …