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Cibo (e sesso)
Fin dal suo apparire sulla scena del mondo, l'essere umano è segnato da due bisogni fondamentali cui deve la propria sopravvivenza: l'uno riguarda l'individuo, l'altro la specie. Alimentazione e sessualità interagiscono fra loro secondo natura, cultura e spiritualità, e connotano una vita virtuosa o viziosa (gola e lussuria aprono la serie dei vizi capitali!). Riservando un più ampio spazio al cibo, in questo ebook se ne coglie la molteplicità di richiami, dall'opzione vegetariana, illustrata nelle sue motivazioni e nelle diverse modalità proprie delle tradizioni religiose, alla convivialità eucaristica, preludio del banchetto celeste.
In Paradiso ad attenderci
Se l’uomo ha un’anima, e se questa lo caratterizza e lo distingue, possiamo interrogarci sull’anima degli animali? Questo è solo uno dei temi affrontati nella fitta conversazione tra Paolo De Benedetti e un interlocutore non credente, Maurizio Scordino, che ne raccoglie il pensiero attraverso i ricordi familiari, i ritratti di quanti hanno avuto a che fare con lui e la rilettura delle molte pubblicazioni teologiche dell’ex direttore editoriale di Bompiani e Garzanti. Temi importanti, ma poco discussi, come possono esserlo quelli legati al concetto di sacrificio offerto a Dio, alla similitudine tra la sofferenza degli animali e la Shoah e al complesso rapporto tra fede e vegetarismo. In Paradiso ad attenderci è il resoconto di un lungo dialogo tra due amici, affettuoso ma non accondiscendente, che propone una nuova direzione per affrontare argomenti di solito visti con sufficienza o come estemporanei, nella benevola (quanto spesso involontariamente offensiva) percezione che l’ambiente, religioso o meno, a essi concede. Introduzione di Vito Mancuso, teologo
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A Sociology of Prayer
Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed: What exactly is prayer? How does it vary? Why do people pray and in what situations and settings? Does prayer imply a god, and if so, what sort? A Sociology of Prayer addresses these fundamental questions and opens up important new debates. Drawing from religion, sociology of religion, anthropology, and historical perspectives, the contributors focus on prayer as a social as well as a personal matter and situate prayer in the conditions of complex late modern societies worldwide. Presenting fresh empirical data in relation to original theorising, the volume also examines the material aspects of prayer, including the objects, bodies, symbols, and spaces with which it may be integrally connected.
Shepherds and Fishermen
Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap, preacher to the papal household for over forty years, graciously accepted Pope Francis’s invitation to lead a six-day retreat for the bishops of the United States in January 2019. Shepherds and Fishermen contains the reflections and meditations that guided this gathering, presented in an accessible format for groups and individuals seeking spiritual and ministerial inspiration. Shepherds and Fishermen lifts up the words of Mark 3:14: “He appointed twelve . . . that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach.” Reflections and meditations offered in lectio divina, homilies, and liturgies focus on what it means to “be with Jesus” w...
Diffused Religion
This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values largely shared in society by being diffused through primary and secondary socialisation. Cipriani also contends that these very values which give form to diffused religion can also be seen in themselves as their own kind of religion. As a result, they go beyond secularisation and favour the religious continuum extending around the world of diffused religions. This work will be of great interest to scholars in the Sociology of Religion and to anyone wanting to learn more about the social aspects of religion.
Modern Polygamy in the United States
Few people realize that polygamy continues to exist in the United States. Thus, world-wide attention focused on the State of Texas in 2008 as agents surrounded the compound of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and took custody of more than 400 children. Several members of this schismatic religious group, whose women adorned themselves in "prairie dresses," admitted to practicing polygamy. The state justified the raid on charges that underage marriage was being forced on young women. A year later, however, all but one of the children had been returned to their parents and only ten men were charged with crimes, some barely related to the original charges. Th...
