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In the 19th-century monasticism was revived in the Church of England, leading to the foundation of such institutions as the House of the Resurrection, Mirfield ( Community of the Resurrection ), Nashdom Abbey ( Benedictine ), Cleeve Priory ( Community of the Glorious Ascension ) and Ewell Monastery ( Cistercian ), Benedictine orders, Franciscan orders and the Orders of the Holy Cross, Order of St. Helena.

Other Protestant Christian denominations also engage in monasticism, particularly Lutherans in Europe and North America.

For example, the Benedictine order of the Holy Cross at St Augustine's House in Michigan is a Lutheran order of monks and there are Lutheran religious communities in Sweden and Germany.

In the 1960s, experimental monastic groups were formed in which both men and women were members of the same house and also were permitted to be married and have children — these were operated on a communal form.

The Jewish Kibutz is a form of monasticism operating on a communal basis.