Metanoia

This social anthropological thesis reports on fieldwork in a coenobitic Orthodoxmonastery on Mount Athos. In Part I the thesis is concerned with metanoia - repentancefrom sins. Penthos, mourning, is a personal condition of extreme sobriety in which bothlaughter and anger are avo…

From the personal contemporary pastoral experience of caring for dying people, and with particular attention given to the psychospiritual anguish often associated with the perceived failure of death, I argue that suffering is primarily identified in the modern West as an insult …