Un monachesimo (re)inventato? Due comunità femminili a confronto.

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This work originated from a research carried out among two Italian female communities, which define themselves “monastic”. One belongs to Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem (FMG), a so-called “community of a new kind”; the other is a traditional Camaldolese nunnery. I used of a qualitative methodology for this study – that is both communities were kept under ethnographic observation for 4 months each, in addition to that I made 23 deep interviews. The hypothesis on which this study is based developed during my field experience and is based on the following observation: there are processes of reinterpretation of tradition underway both in FMG and in the Benedictine community which become evident through the different way the two communities look at the monastic identity and at the role of nuns and monks in society and in the world. The analysis of empirical data permits to see that such processes of “invention of tradition” take up specific and opposite features in the two communities.

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