Initiation of youth into religious life: A comparative study of the initiation into religious life between a De La Salle brother and a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka

• Main Author: Michael, Joseph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Initiation rites > Religious aspects > Buddhism, [Christianity, etc]; Brothers (Religious); Buddhist monks > Sri Lanka; Buddhist youth > Religious life; Monasticism and religious orders; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/737
• Institution: De La Salle University

This dissertation compares the process of initiation into religious life of two non-clerical Orders belonging to two different religious traditions in Sri Lanka. The comparison is made between a De La Salle (DLS) Brother from the Roman Catholic tradition and a Bhikku from the Theravada Buddhist trad...