# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-keating
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:07:55.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-keating"
name: "Thomas Keating"
slug: "thomas-keating"
description: "Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. was an American Trappist priest known as one of the principal developers of centering prayer, a contemplative method that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts."
tagline: "American Trappist monk (1923–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Keating.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-03-07"
deathDate: "2018-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1573426573426573
  historical:           9.291188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Keating"
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    title: "Thomas Keating"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump