Clashing Symbols

Clashing Symbols
Author: Michael Paul Gallagher
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809142590

This new edition provides a guide to the relationship between faith and culture. Providing an introduction to all the major figures, issues and debates, this guide is useful for students and those wishing to unlock the realities of contemporary culture.

Clashing Symbols?

Clashing Symbols?
Author: Clem McCartney
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

How Not to Say Mass, Third Edition

How Not to Say Mass, Third Edition
Author: Dennis Chester Smolarski
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015
Genre: Mass
ISBN: 1587685426

Revised in accord with the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the new translation of the liturgy, this book encourages the authentic celebration of the renewed Eucharistic liturgy.

Rethinking Law and Religion

Rethinking Law and Religion
Author: Russell Sandberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2024-06-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800886195

This incisive book delineates the development of Law and Religion as a sub-discipline, critically reflecting on the author’s own role in constructing the field. It develops a subversive social systems theory in order to take both law and religion seriously and to challenge them equally.

Local Worship, Global Church

Local Worship, Global Church
Author: Mark R. Francis
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-02-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814637620

How would the history of Roman Catholic worship look if it were viewed first from the perspective of the “people in the pews” rather than through the deliberations of popes and church councils or the writings of theologians? How did the “common people” down through the ages understand what they were doing when they came together in worship—and was this understanding always the same as the “official” interpretation of the church authorities? In Local Worship, Global Church, Mark Francis explores the history of the liturgy from “the bottom up” rather than from “the top down” and comes to conclusions that complement our understanding of the history of the liturgy and its relationship to faithful Christians from the first century CE to our own time.

Law and Religion

Law and Religion
Author: Russell Sandberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139501186

The worlds of law and religion increasingly collide in Parliament and the courtroom. Religious courts, the wearing of religious symbols and faith schools have given rise to increased legislation and litigation. This is the first student textbook to set out the fundamental principles and issues of law and religion in England and Wales. Offering a succinct exposition and critical analysis of the field, it explores how English law regulates the practice of religion. The textbook surveys law and religion from various perspectives, such as human rights and discrimination law, as well as considering the legal status of both religion and religious groups. Controversial and provocative questions are explored, promoting full engagement with the key debates. The book's explanatory approach and detailed references ensure understanding and encourage independent study. Students can track key developments on the book's updating website. This innovative text is essential reading for all students in the field.

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit
Author: Néstor Medina
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004363092

In Christianity, Empire and The Spirit, Néstor Medina uncovers the cultural processes that play a crucial role in influencing how people understand reality, express the Christian faith, and think about God. He uses decolonial thinking, Latina/o theology, and Pentecostal theology to show how the cultural dimension is a central feature in the biblical text; was the force that coopted Christianity from the imperial era of Constantine onwards; and undergirded Western European colonialism and the missionary project. He engages with Protestant and Catholic articulations on “culture” and demonstrates how most theologians perpetuate Eurocentric frames for considering the relation between Christianity and the cultural dimension. Alternatively, he offers a theological proposal that recognizes the Spirit at work in the phenomena of cultures.

Mediating Religion

Mediating Religion
Author: Jolyon P. Mitchell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780567088079

This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way.Some of the topics covered include religion in the media age, popular broadcasting, communication theology, popular piety, film and religion, myth and ritual in cyberspace, music and religion, communication ethics, and the nature of truth in media saturated cultures.The result is not only a wide-ranging resource for scholars and students, but also a unique introduction to this increasingly important phenomenon of modern life.

The Post-Conciliar Church in Africa

The Post-Conciliar Church in Africa
Author: Laurenti Magesa
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-06-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532609132

The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II, 1962-65) was distinctly different from other councils in one significant aspect. In all the areas it discussed, this council did not see itself as the end of a process, but rather as a beginning. It opened, not closed, doors--whether doctrinal or disciplinary--for ongoing reflection, for possibilities of ever-improving knowledge and understanding. Laurenti Magesa offers this book as a stimulus for African (Catholic) Christians to continue digging deeper into and benefiting from the spiritual treasures that the Council still contains. For the theologian or historian of Vatican II, some of the information may be quite familiar, but all of it is important if one is to grasp the scope, meaning, and implications of the Council for the Church and people of Africa.