Trasmutatio between Old and New Monasticism

The thesis put forward in this article is that in the current process of the resignification of monasticism, NMCs radicalise the transformations which some – progressively oriented – traditional communities have already undertaken in order to make monastic identity relevant once more, especially in the wake of Vatican II. Nevertheless, the renewal of the traditional monasteries – abandoning the habit, making metaphors of enclosure and fuga mundi, reduction of communal prayer time – is of a conservative nature because it goes in the direction of continuity with the tradition of reference.