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.

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.

Clashing Symbols?

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

The Right to Wear Religious Symbols

The Right to Wear Religious Symbols
Author: D. Hill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2016-01-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137354178

Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key issue in contemporary society: whether there is a human right to wear a religious symbol and how far any such right extends.

Sacred Space for the Missional Church

Sacred Space for the Missional Church
Author: William R. McAlpine
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-02-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149827322X

Sacred Space for the Missional Church examines the strong link between the theology and mission of the Church and the spaces in which and from which that theology and mission are lived out. The author demonstrates that the built environment is not incidental or even subservient to mission. Rather it is a key player in the fulfillment and the communication of that mission. The book begins with a working definition of the missional church, underscoring the connection between God's mission (missio Dei) and the Church's mission. The reader is presented with historical and theological frameworks for sacred space, and reminded of the pivotal role of the built environment in the fulfillment of the mission of the Church. The design and construction of sacred spaces are shown to be fundamentally a theological exercise and not solely a matter of function, pragmatics and fiscal astuteness. The author questions the uncritical application of blanket statements such "form must follow function," and challenges the conviction that it does not matter where worship occurs, only that it occurs. The book addresses genuine concerns such as legitimizing the cost of church buildings and concludes with practical suggestions and essential questions that must be considered in posturing the built environment within the missional praxis of the Church.

Making Sense of Generation Y

Making Sense of Generation Y
Author: Sara B. Savage
Publisher: Church House Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9780715140512

Based on ground breaking research, this work outlines how 'Generation Y' (those born after 1980) shape their worldview and spirituality through the popular arts - music, clubbing, TV soaps - and looks at the implications for the church.

Local Worship, Global Church

Local Worship, Global Church
Author: Mark R. Francis
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814618790

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.

Who Do We Think We Are?

Who Do We Think We Are?
Author: Christopher A. Fallon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567662586

This empirical study explores how the sampled priests understand their priesthood. Chris A. Fallon reviews Liverpool's history of expansion and decline, which has left fewer and older priests serving fewer active Catholics and an undiminished number who still require baptisms, first communions, marriages and funerals. It contrasts the models of priesthood found in Liverpool with American studies of the cultic and servant leader models of priesthood, taking into account the theological viewpoints and personality profiles of the individuals who took part.

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.

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Author: H. Fuller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113744858X

Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.