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Sorting Out Catholicism
In this expanded and thoroughly updated English edition of the Italian edition (2008), Massimo Faggioli offers us a history and broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements of which Focolare, Community of Sant'Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, and Opus Dei are only some of the most recognizable names. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council, crosses Vatican II, and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a history that prepares the movements' rise in the last three decades, from John Paul II to Francis. These movements are a complex phenomenon that shapes the Church now more than before, and they play a key role for the future of Catholicism as a global community, in transition from a Eurocentric tradition to a world Church.
Citizenship in Transition
The revolutions and protests arising from the Arab Spring, combined with the establishment of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, challenged dominant ideas about what people in the Middle East expect from their governments. At the same time, a new wave of migration has been created, once again showing how the local, regional and global are connected in the identity of citizens and concepts of citizenship. This turmoil and its human cost —tragically captured in the image of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi—have called into question prevailing modes of thinking about the Middle East, as well as the policy of EU governments towards refugees and immigration. These seismic events have compounded ...
Religious Education at Schools in Europe
At a time when educational issues have increasingly come to determine the social and political discourse and major reforms of the education system are being discussed and implemented, and when migration has become a significant phenomenon, contributing to changes in the religious landscape of the European continent, it is highly appropriate to focus our attention on the concrete situation regarding religious education. This volume contains – again on the basis of thirteen key questions – the countries of Southern Europe (Republic of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Monaco, and San Marino). Beyond the all-important tasks of taking stock and making international comparisons, the aim of this book, that is the final volume of the series "Religious Education at Schools in Europe", is to create a foundation for further action in the field of education, especially with regard to interfaith expertise.
The Rising Laity
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La Chiesa e i rifiuti
Prefazione di Brunetto SalvaraniI rifiuti sono un problema. Anche per il cristiano.Questo libro nasce dall’idea di raccogliere le testimonianze di sacerdoti, vescovi e religiosi campani che, di fronte all’«emergenza rifiuti» tristemente famosa in...
Ecclesiology and Exclusion
Ecclesiologists and other experts from around the world address various forms of exclusion in the Catholic Church. These essays address the many forms of exclusion in churches around the world, with a major focus on the Roman Catholic Church but also addressing exclusion in other churches. Topics included are exclusion of marginal people, exclusion and racial justice, exclusion and gender, exclusion and sacramental practices, and exclusion and ecumenical reality. Contributors include Paul Lakeland, Gerard Mannion, A. E. Orobator, Bryan Massingale, Phyllis Zagano, Neil Ormerod, Bradford Hinze, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and Susan K. Wood, among others.
Religious Freedom in Italy
Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a Catholic nation par excellence, Italy owes its unification to a political class that advocated the separation of Church and State. Home of the Concordat, contemporary Italy recognises a peculiar notion of legal secularism (laicità) as the supreme principle of its constitutional order. Through the glasses of law, tracing the history of the right to religious freedom from the Unification to the present day, the nine chapters of the book allow an insight on paradoxes and contradictions of a complex system made of unresolved stratifications where a strong constitutional recognition of religious freedom is accompanied by a weak legislative protection of religious pluralism and, at the same time, a vigorous religious agency in the public space. Religious freedom in Italy offers an interpretation of a model of religious freedom that is not only a paradigm for many European experiences but also a possible interpretative parameter to better understand the dynamics of religious freedom between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Cosa Nostra Social Club
«I neomelodici sono il cancro di Napoli.» «I canti di malavita calabresi sono musicalmente insignificanti e vanno ben oltre l'apologia di reato.» Fin dagli anni novanta studiosi, giornalisti, politici, magistrati, scrittori e moralizzatori dichiarano che le canzoni «criminali» intonate in Campania e Calabria sono in grado di influenzare negativamente chi le ascolta, soprattutto i giovani, e quindi da bandire e dimenticare. In Italia, dunque, esisterebbe un'educazione musicale alla mafia impartita attraverso melodie e testi che, descrivendo comportamenti violenti, giustificano o determinano la violenza: un automatismo ancora indimostrato. Nonostante la censura culturale alimentata dai m...
Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe
This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective. Despite the very different and to some extent opposite historical and political trajectories, there is today a convergence on nationalist affirmation and on majoritarian politics between South Asia and Europe. In India, the Hindu majority rebels against wide-ranging minority rights anchored in the Constitution. In Europe, the refugee crisis and Islamic radicalization bring to the forefront the postcolonial legacy. Despite all rhetoric, there are obvious dangers of majoritarianism. Populist parties are divisive, partisan...
Congregations in Europe
This volume describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries. Consisting of three parts, it presents concrete sociological studies addressing how established and not established, old and new congregations of various faiths create a new kind of religious diversity at the country level; how religious congregations are challenged and thrive in large cities; and how religious congregations change in the 21st century. The book enlightens by its descriptive analysis and the theoretical questions it raises concerning the religious transformations ha...
