A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders

Marcin Jewdokimow is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and acting Head of the Department of 20th and 21st Century Culture in the Institute of Classical and Cultural Studies at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland. He is author of Klasztor w perspektywie socjologicznej: w poszukiwaniu nowego ujęcia [A Monastery in a Sociological Perspective: Seeking for a New Approach] (2018). Thomas Quartier, OSB teaches ritual and liturgical studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and holds the chair for Monastic Spirituality at KU Leuven, Belgium. The author of numerous books, he is also a postdoctoral research fellow of Titus Brandsma Institute, The Netherlands, Visiting Professor at the Benedictine University Sant’ Anselmo in Rome and a monk of St. Willibrord’s Abbey in Doetinchem, The Netherlands.

1. Introduction: Linking monasteries and religious orders with the visual



2. Photographing friars: Visualising the history of changing Dutch Augustinian identities



3. Nun with a camera: An insider’s view (the case of a Russian Orthodox monastery)



4. One year in a Dominican convent in Sudetenland: Religious community in a post-atheistic and post-secular situation



5. Shooting monastic identity: Reflections on photography and spiritual transformation



6. Monastic architecture as a bridge between ecology and spirituality: A case study of a Benedictine monastery in Clerlande, Belgium



7. The lived spirituality of Czech monasteries through architectural materiality



8. Outside, inside – monasteries and monasticism in the local environment: Religion, social memory and economy (the case of Cistercian monasteries in Poland)



9. Photo-elicitation: Visual methods and monasteries. A few preliminary considerations and some results