Monasticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...a completely communal style of life; the second...favored the cenobitic style and stressed manual labor...priests and do not value learning. In contrast to the...almost alone, preserved learning in the West. In the...of a quasi-hermit type, are the only non...