Opstand op de Lindenburgh. Monastieke machtsverhoudingen in een ontwikkelingsperspectief

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To many lay people & clergy, life in a monastery represents tradition, order, continuity, & a general withdrawal from worldly affairs. As such, any changes are seen as revolutionary. A case study of de Lindenburgh monastery in the province of Brabant, the Netherlands, based on a literature survey & participant observation from 1978 to 1984, shows that this picture is the misleading result of adopting a short-term view. What seem to be revolutionary changes are in fact little more than culmination points in a long-term process of continuous adaptations to the outside world, the driving forces of which are a combination of internal monastical competition, factionalism between the diocesan & monastic clergy, & rivalry with worldly power configurations. The insights gained from such a study may provide insights into other religious conflicts, ie, the troubles over the appointment of the new bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch. 9 References. HA