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Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants, the fight against social exclusion and pacifist campaigns, where religious actors have played discreet but structuring roles. In the European context, politico-religious matters have been reduced in two ways: first, a reduction of identity with religion being transformed into a heritage in the form of a minimal sense of belonging; and second, the media focus on the most fundamentalist currents within all religions. This book responds by proposing an alternative perspective with a focus on Southern European Catholicism and a comparison between Italian, Spanish and French subnational territories. In a period of polarized relations between religion and politics, there is a Catholic action repertoire which avoids this binary confrontation and which, in contrast, is characterized by its mediating dimension. The Catholic mediation repertoire receives little publicity and is expressed in a discreet but structuring way to address different public problems. An important contribution to the literature, this book will interest scholars and upper-level students working on religion and politics, mediation and peace studies, local policy making and comparative approaches to Southern European society and politics.

A history of Catholic social thought Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception, and divorce. Yet there is a longstanding tradition of progressive Catholic movements in the United States that have addressed a variety of issues from labor, war, immigration, and environmental protection, to human rights, women's rights, exploitive development practices, and bellicose foreign policies. These Catholic social movements have helped to shift the Church from an institution that had historically supported incumbent governments and political elites to a Church that has increasingly sided with the vulnerable and oppressed. This book provides a concise history of progressively oriented Catholic Social Thought, which conveys the Catholic Church's position on a variety of social justice concerns. Sharon Erickson Nepstad introduces key papal encyclicals and other church documents, showing how lay Catholics in the United States have put these ideas into practice through a creative and sometimes provocative political engagement. Nepstad also explores how these progressive movements have pressured the religious hierarchy to respond to pressing social issues, such as women's ordination, conscription, and the morality of nuclear deterrence policies. Catholic Social Activism vividly depicts how these progressive movements have helped to shape the religious landscape of the United States, and how they have provoked controversy and debate among Catholics and non-Catholics alike

"Das Christentum ist seinem Selbstverständnis nach eine Liebesreligion, aber seine Geschichte
ist nicht zuletzt auch eine Geschichte der Gewalt. Der Text versucht diesen Widerspruch zu erklären. Er untersucht mit den Mitteln der Analytischen Sozialpsychologie, ausgehend vom Text der Bibel, was in dieser Religion der Ausübung von Gewalt
entgegenkommen kann." (Autorenreferat)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Care Economy as Alternative Economy -- An Integral Ecology as the Ground for Good Business: Connecting Institutional Life in Light of Catholic Social Teachings -- Inaugurating a "Bold Cultural Revolution" through Prayer and Work -- Generative Businesses Fostering Vitality: Rethinking Businesses' Relationship to the World -- The Homemaker as Worker: Second Wave American Feminist Campaigns to Value Housework -- Curing the "Disease" in Corporatized Higher Education: Prescriptions from the Catholic Social Tradition -- Working Alternatives: From Capitalism to Humanistic Management? -- The "Dignity of Motherhood" Demands Something Diff erent: A Catholic Experiment in Reproductive Care in New Mexico -- Southern Christian Work Camps and a Cold War Campaign for Racial and Economic Justice -- Meaningful Work in a Time of Crisis -- List of Contributors -- Index

This book traces the development of exorcism in Catholic Christianity from the fourth century to the present day, and seeks to explain why exorcism is still so much in demand. This is the first work in English to trace the development of the liturgy, practice and authorisation of exorcisms in Latin Christianity. The rite of exorcism, and the claim by Roman Catholic priests to be able to drive demons from the possessed, remains an enduring source of popular fascination, but the origins and history of this controversial rite have been little explored. Arguing that belief in the need for exorcism typically re-emerges at periods of crisis for the church, Francis Young explores the shifting boundaries between authorised exorcisms and unauthorised magic throughout Christian history, from Augustine of Hippo to Pope Francis. This book offers the historical background to - and suggests reasons for - the current resurgence of exorcism in the global Catholic Church

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Twenty-Fourth Award of the Aquinas Medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ -- Chapter 2. Interpersonal Dialogue: Key to Realism -- Chapter 3. Causality and Time -- Chapter 4 System: A New Category of Being? -- Chapter 5. A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument -- Chapter 6. The Problem of the Reality and Multiplicity of Divine Ideas in Christian Neoplatonism -- Chapter 7. Is the Ethical Eudaimonism of Saint Thomas Too Self-Centered? -- Chapter 8. Conscience and the Person -- Chapter 9. Democracy, Ethics, Religion: An Intrinsic Connection -- Chapter 10. What Cannot Be Said in Saint Thomas's Essence-Existence Doctrine -- Chapter 11. Living on the Edge: The Human Person as ''Frontier Being'' and Microcosm -- Chapter 12. The Metaphysics of Religious Art: Reflections on a Text of Saint Thomas -- Chapter 13. The Immediate Creation of the Human Soul by God and Some Contemporary Challenges -- Chapter 14. The Creative Imagination: Unique Expression of Our Soul-Body Unity -- Chapter 15. The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought -- Chapter 16. The Integration of Personalism and Thomistic Metaphysics in Twenty-First-Century Thomism -- Notes -- Name Index -- Subject Index

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Divorce -- Introduction -- 1 Between Church and Nation -- 2 National Ideals and Their Failure -- 3 Religious and Secular Extremes at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- Part II. Defense -- Introduction -- 4 Piety Against Politics -- 5 Local Languages for the Defense of Religion -- Part III. Détente -- Introduction -- 6 The Limits of Personal Reconciliation -- 7 Reconciliation of Cultures in the Third Republic -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The "Nation" Conundrum -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index

Abstract: Catholicism played an important role in bringing about the third wave of democratization. This was due to a long historical rapprochement through which both church and the democratic state came to tolerate the other. The Church then exercised a direct influence upon democratization in many countries—strongly in Poland, Lithuania, Spain, the Philippines, and Brazil, but weakly in other places, like Argentina. The Church was most likely to exercise a strong influence when it was differentiated from the state—in its governance, in its transnational links, in its domestic alliances, and in its identification with national identity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition -- Part 1 Ritual Battles from the Kongo Kingdom to the Americas -- 1 Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans -- 2 Moros e Christianos Ritualized Naval Battles: Baptizing American Waters with African Spiritual Meaning -- 3 A Mexican Sangamento? The First Afro-Christian Performance in the Americas -- Part 2 America's Black Kings and Diplomatic Representation -- 4 Representing an African King in Brazil -- 5 Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in the Eighteenth Century -- Part 3 Reconsidering Primary Sources -- 6 Envisioning Brazil's Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas -- 7 The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built: Africana Antecedents to Yoruba Religious Formation in Trinidad -- Part 4 Aurality and Diasporic Traditions -- 8 On Hearing Africas in the Americas: Domestic Celebrations for Catholic Saints as Afro-Diasporic Religious Tradition -- Contributors -- Index