TY  - BOOK
AU  - Speake, Graham
TI  - History of the athonite commonwealth: the spiritual and cultural diaspora of Mount Athos 
SN  - 9781108444323
U1  - 271.8194 SPE-G 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - India
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Greece--Athos
KW  - Orthodox Eastern monasteries
KW  - Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
KW  - Monē Megistēs Lauras (Athos, Greece)
N1  - This book examines the part played by monks of Mount Athos in the diffusion of Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. It focuses on the lives of outstanding holy men in the history of Orthodoxy who has been drawn to the Mountain, has absorbed the spirit of its wisdom and its prayer, and has returned to the outside world, inspired to spread the results of their labors and learning. In a remarkable demonstration of what may be termed 'soft power' in action, these men have carried the image of Athos to all corners of the Balkan peninsula, to Ukraine, to the very far north of Russia, across Siberia and the Bering Strait into North America, and most recently (when traditional routes were closed to them by the curtain of communism) to the West. Their dynamic witness is the greatest gift of Athos to a world thirsting for spiritual guidance.
ER  -