“…Starting in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, and then traveling all over the world (Myanmar, Kenya, India, Nepal, and more), Kelsey explores not only different ways of giving—as a worker, consumer, volunteer, giver, local and global citizen—but also the benefits and effectiveness of these methods. He spends time with monks, students, a refugee, a Marine, a former Hollywood executive, Peace Corps Volunteers, and seasoned aid workers to explore how they give, as well as with the people on the receiving end of their giving. …”

“…En especial, las características de autores que forman parte de este libro, como Peter Smith, Anastasio Ovejero, Claire Monks, Katie Rix, Rosario del Rey, Gonzalo Musitu, Rosario Ortega, Javier Fresneda o Pedro Puig, entre otros, plantean que la acumulación de factores de riesgo lleva consigo consecuencias negativas, conductuales y emocionales. …”

“…In this connection, it particularly asks Religious to bear witness to their transforming and liberating experience of God in Jesus Christ; to revitalize the Christian contemplative and ascetical traditions; to exercise the ministry of spiritual guidance; and to engage in in-depth dialogue with the monks and faithful of other religious traditions. …”
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“…En especial, las características de autores que forman parte de este libro, como Peter Smith, Anastasio Ovejero, Claire Monks, Katie Rix, Rosario del Rey, Gonzalo Musitu, Rosario Ortega, Javier Fresneda o Pedro Puig, entre otros, plantean que la acumulación de factores de riesgo lleva consigo consecuencias negativas, conductuales y emocionales. …”
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“…Mayr was born in the Austrian province of Tyrol in 1865, educated as a priest in the diocese of Brixen and arrived in Natal (South Africa) at the beginning of May 1890, inspired by the work being done there by the Trappist-Monks led by Abbot Franz Pfanner. Mayr was physically handicapped and soon left the trappists but just to offer his services to the vicar apostolic of Natal, Bishop Charles Jolivet, who accepted him for work among the African population. …”

“…Her second book, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West, focused on the ritual, spatial, and gendered worlds of monks in the Carolingian period (ca. 750-987)…”

“…The Shōbogenzō, gathered first as a series of talks given by Eihei Dōgen (and later composed as written texts) details the process of understanding which leads, for Dōgen, to a position of pure seeing, or satori, and yet these talks are not simply rules for monks, nor merely imprecations and demands for a laity; rather, they open a being’s thinking to the possibility of something purely other and work as a transition across worlds that also opens us to an other world. …”

“…This book aims to test the validity of this theoretical framework against the reality as lived by the monks of the Abbey of St Peter of Lobbes (Hainault, Belgium), from its founding until the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. …”