This is the first book-length study in English to investigate Freire’s landmark educational theory and practice through the lens of his lifelong Catholicism. A Pedagogy of Faith explores this ...often-overlooked dimension of one of the most globally prominent and influential educational thinkers of the past fifty years. Leopando illustrates how vibrant currents within twentieth-century Catholic theology shaped central areas of Freire’s thought and activism, especially his view of education as a process of human formation in light of the divinely-endowed “vocation” of persons to shape culture, society, and history. With the contemporary resurgence of authoritarian political and cultural forces throughout much of the world, Freire’s theologically-grounded affirmation of radical democracy, social justice, historical possibility, and the absolute dignity of the human person remains as vital and relevant as ever.
Este texto constituye una aportación clave para entender la política de la monarquía española en unos años de cambio y transición, entre los gobiernos de los Reyes Católicos y de Carlos V. La figura ...política y el papel de mecenas de Diego Ramírez de Villaescusa, su formación intelectual, política, artística y cultural; sus servicios a la monarquía y su vinculación con la corte; su labor pastoral, sus aspiraciones por el capelo cardenalicio y sus numerosos patrocinios artísticos determinan la importancia de este personaje para entender el devenir histórico de la monarquía española en las primeras décadas del siglo XVI. En estos análisis se conjugan magistralmente los estudios de la corte con la historia cultural y ahonda en el significado de la biografía política, más allá de los trabajos clásicos decimonónicos, vinculando al personaje con su época y con la labor realizada. La rigurosa consulta de fuentes primarias en archivos españoles y extranjeros y una exhaustiva puesta al día bibliográfica constituyen por sí mismos un elemento valioso y fundamental de este trabajo.
Good Catholics Miller, Patricia
2014., 20140520, 2014, 2014-05-20
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Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well ...as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate Catholic doctrine on sexuality into law. Miller recounts a dramatic but largely untold history of protest and persecution, which demonstrates the profound and surprising influence that the conflict over abortion in the Catholic Church has had not only on the church but also on the very fabric of U.S. politics. Good Catholics addresses many of today’s hot-button questions about the separation of church and state, including what concessions society should make in public policy to matters of religious doctrine, such as the Catholic ban on contraception. Good Catholics is a Gold Medalist (Women’s Issues) in the 2015 IPPY awards, an award presented by the Independent Publishers Book Association to recognize excellence in independent book publishing.
Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come ...to mind-praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? InFearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages.
Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition-tracts and treatises with titles such asDe superstitionibusandContra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe's universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.
During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational ...sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the "psy sciences," were debated and introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through its analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.
Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon ...Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways in which America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American national identity.
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to
destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish
national identity and the religious faith of approximately
two-thirds of Poland's ...population, the Roman Catholic Church was an
obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and
cultural Germanization.
Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church under
German Occupation that the persecution of the church was most
severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of Poland annexed to
Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution of priests,
the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and
concentration camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and
confiscation of church property, and countless restrictions on
public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also illustrates
how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground
for anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the
successful completion of the war. Based on largely untapped sources
from state and church archives, punctuated by vivid archival
photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, The Polish
Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the
brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy.
The first English-language investigation of German policy toward
the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also
offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics-from Pope
Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity
at the parish level-responded to the Nazi regime's repressive
measures.
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