From Contemplation to Connection: Empathy and Encounter in European Monasteries
IntechOpen eBooks April 9, 2026 Madalena Abreu
This chapter explores how monastic environments foster empathic experiences for both visitors and residents through practices of contemplation, hospitality, and spiritual presence. Drawing on autoethnographic insights and service-learning frameworks, the chapter examines how European monasteries operate as distinctive experiential settings in which silence, ritual, and embodied spirituality...