Sentence examples for monastic groups from inspiring English sources

In many traditions, habits serve to identify monastic groups.

About 1845 monastic orders began to reappear in the Church of England, and about a century later small Protestant monastic groups were founded on the continent of Europe.

The Qumrān sects, Jewish monastic groups known in modern times for their preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, believed in a messianic pair: a priestly messiah from the house of Aaron (the brother of Moses) and a royal messiah from the house of David.

During the Byzantine era when Cappadocia was home to a flourishing Christian community, the area around the mountain was home to monastic groups attracted by the barren loneliness of the slopes.

Paramilitary, or quasi-monastic, associations are another type of monastic group.

If Qumran housed a monastic group, why does a nearby cemetery hold bodies of women and children?

The number of texts considered to make up the Shvetambara canon has varied over time and by monastic group.

The Essenes of the Qumrān community, the sole monastic group in the history of Judaism, were, in their own vision, inimical to the ecclesiastic centre and marginal to the official Judaic complex.

Like the later so-called Qumrān covenanters (the monastic group associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls), they were opposed to the Jewish priesthood and the cult of the Temple, regarded Moses as a messianic figure, and forbade the revelation of esoteric doctrines to outsiders.

Jain nuns also had a triad to govern them: the male teacher (āyariya), the male preceptor (uvajjhāya) or head of the monastic group (gani), and the female supervisor (pavatinnî ganinî).

The Imitation is clearly directed toward persons called to the contemplative life, monks and nuns and semi-monastic groups like the Brethren.