Catholicism category: 4667 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Catholicism was all over movie screens in 2004. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was at the center of a media firestorm for months. A priest was a crucial character in the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about how religious stories should be represented,...
by Jane Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Innovative Catholicism and the Human Condition gives an anthropological account of a progressive religious movement in the Roman Catholic Church that is attempting to reconcile religious conviction and reason, and, ergo, modify the human condition. Investigation is given to a representative group...
Catholicism Opening to the World and Other Confessions
Vatican II and its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
This volume explores how Catholicism began and continues to open its doors to the wider world and to other confessions in embracing ecumenism, thanks to the vision and legacy of the Second Vatican Council. It explores such themes as the twentieth century context preceding the council; parallels between...
Sorting Out Catholicism
A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Focolare, Community of Sant’Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. These are but a few of the most recognizable names in the broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council,...
by Enrique Fiesta
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
An Introduction to Roman Catholicism
Table of Contents
Introduction
Essentials
Chapter 1: The Creed
Chapter 2: Sacraments
Chapter 3: Catholic Traditions
Conclusion
Glossary of Terms
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
The purpose of this text is to present and defend the fundamental...
Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life
A Dialogue with Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? And what can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state controversies in the United States and around the world? Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, organized through the work of the Institute for Advanced...
by Franco Garelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Religious pluralism is increasing due to progressively more culturally interactive societies and an escalating exchange of migrants. Nevertheless, as this book shows, the situation in Italy is characterized by several distinct features. Statistically, the level of religiosity is noticeably higher...
Sexual Diversity and Catholicism
Toward the Development of Moral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Roman Catholic Church has in recent decades sent mixed signals with regard to discrimination based on sexual identity. On the one hand, official documents have condemned violence and verbal abuse directed at persons of different sexual orientation; on the other hand, the Church has approved and...
The Faces of the Gods
Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in...
A Catholic Modernity?
Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centerpiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January...
Rome in America
Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an "American Catholicism," a national faith responsive to domestic concerns, disengaged from the disruptive ideological...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
An “intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving,” argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author (Booklist).
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling...
Monaghan
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Pizza mogul, sports owner, billionaire, devout Catholic, university founder, philanthropist. These are just a few of the many words that describe Tom Monaghan. The man who built Domino’s Pizza into an empire, owned the Detroit Tigers, built a Catholic college, then moved it halfway across the country...
Catholicism
New Study Edition--Completely Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A new study edition of the classic that has sold over 150,000 copies.