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Bradshaw reviews 'Love and Saint Augustine' by Hannah Arendt and edited with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark.

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By way of introduction I have to say that I know little about the Focolari movement or the Economy of Communion group. This paper is offered on the assumption that the movement is dedicated to the radical transformation of society and not just tinkering at the edges in order to keep the economy as we know it going.

Intro -- Dedication -- Introduction -- A Call to Ministry -- Scott -- Scott (Revisited) -- Mr. Frank -- Rose -- Mr. Frank, and Dolly, too -- A bit of CPE backstory... -- Jim -- Veronica -- Sophia -- Antonia -- John -- Sandy -- Index/Glossary of Terms Used.

The five ways of the cosmos: Stoicism and eco-spirituality in the perennial tradition / Christopher S. Morrissey -- A functional cosmology for the crisis of the anthropocene / Caroline Smith -- Earth medicine man makes this place: A prolegomanon to an Akimel O'odham environmental ethics / David Maritnez -- Ecological conversions in American religious and literary culture / Brian Yothers -- Green Calvinism: Reformed Protestant origins of Western Environmentalism / Mark Stoll -- The Symbolic Garden and the spiritual understanding of nature in Byzantium / Kirsty Stewart -- Eco-spirituality in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina / Anastassiya Adrianova -- A sustainable city upon a hill? A Berryite perspective on US cultural examples and American innocence / Christopher Hrynkow -- Reinventing humanity with an eco-spirituality informed by a cosmology of cosmogenesis / Dennis O'Hara -- Big Miracle and religious naturalism: Rescuing myriad nature from popular fantasies of nature rescue / Carol Wayne White -- Faith, nature, and politics: Developing a non-reductive naturalism / Whitney A. Bauman -- The paradox of nature / Martin O. Yalcin.

AbstractIn the context of reflections on modernity, an increasingly widespread belief seems to be emerging: the subject at which it is necessary to direct our attention, to which to throw a lifeline as it were, is the concrete and real human being, alone and at the same time besieged by increasingly tight and numerous systemic schemes. Are the "human subject" and his social context only undergoing a deep transformation, or are they actually in danger? This "new" knowledge involves all the humanistic and social sciences, such as philosophy, anthropology, psychology, economics, political science, and theology, in a sort of fusion and pact for mankind.Great spiritualities include life experiences and ideas that reverberate on everyday life, lifestyles, and culture. From the very beginning, Chiara Lubich's spirituality, is based on two fundamental concepts: unity and forsaken Jesus, has been perceived as a new way to know God, but also as an idea that is able to renew human life, as well as to penetrate social and cultural realities.

In this article from subaltern perspective, the author studies the impact of Pauline perception and praxis on ministries. He asserts that the conflicts and opportunities presently encountered by the people, especially of the subaltern sectors in our country, are multifaceted. The diagnostic framework for grappling with these complex issues could be evolved through the following three snapshots: (1) Universalist Outlook Vs. Par- ticularist Outlook (2) Institutional Authority Vs. Charismatic Authority (3) Accumulation of Power Vs Democratisation of Power. The people of God, as the very living extension of the murdered but Risen body of the Eucharistic Lord with the self-emptying spirit unto death, are none but the community-building community thrown amidst conflict-rid­ den situations with historical uncertainties. Their role is to function as the members of the enlivening God of history in bringing out the fullness of life as envisaged by the same very Lord of history. Whatever be one's identity, status, birth or opportunity, each of the members of the battered and fragmented body of Christ has to be incorporated as the harmoniously integrated body of Christ as a unified and living cosmotheandric organism of Christ. This leads from Fragmentation to genuine Communion.

Three literary versions of communion with the dead: Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and T.S. Eliot / Paul S. Fiddes -- Perceiving an absent presence: the visual world of Paul Nash / Richard L. Kidd -- Telling little, revealing much: transcendence through the art of Mark Rothko / Richard L. Kidd -- A death observed: St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the music of John Tavener / Brian Haymes -- The journey and the dwelling: after death in the musical images of Elgar and Brahms / Paul S. Fiddes -- One world / Brian Haymes -- Hiddenness / Richard L. Kidd -- Participation / Paul S. Fiddes.

In this essay, I show how Gloria Anzaldúa transforms the Roman Catholic concepts of Holy Communion and the veneration of relics as part of the Chicana lesbian aesthetic that characterizes her decolonial project. Reading two poems from her watershed 1987 book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, (hereafter Borderlands) "The Cannibal's Canción" and "Holy Relics," along with an extended metaphorical conceit about corn within the book's final prose chapter, "La conciencia de la mestiza/ Towards a New Consciousness," I show how Anzaldúa critiques the colonial logic of gendered exploitation by repurposing Roman Catholic concepts into stylistic devices that imagine a queer Chicana erotic of mutual consumption. Specifically, this paper considers the way Anzaldúa engages with Catholic rituals that rely on dismemberment, redistribution, and consumption of human bodies for worship and veneration to reexamine Anzaldúa's transformation of Catholicism through her poetics. By incorporating some context about how she understands the moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, I show how Anzaldúa understands dismemberment and reconstitution as a healing, reparative project, and I then connect this notion of dismemberment with the Catholic rituals of Holy Communion and veneration of relics to suggest that Anzaldúa was able to find continuity within as well as more obvious points of departure from Catholic ritual.