Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
215,680
result(s) for
"Catholic Church"
Sort by:
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return examines contemporary migration in the context of a Roman Catholic Church eager to both comprehend and act upon the movements of peoples. Combining extensive fieldwork with lay and religious Latin American migrants in Rome and analysis of the Catholic Church's historical desires and anxieties around conversion since the period of colonization, Napolitano sketches the dynamics of a return to a faith's putative center. Against a Eurocentric notion of Catholic identity, Napolitano shows how the Americas reorient Europe. Napolitano examines both popular and institutional Catholicism in the celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe and El Senor de los Milagros, papal encyclicals, the Latin American Catholic Mission, and the order of the Legionaries of Christ. Tracing the affective contours of documented and undocumented immigrants' experiences and the Church's multiple postures toward transnational migration, she shows how different ways of being Catholic inform constructions of gender, labor, and sexuality whose fault lines intersect across contemporary Europe.
eBook
Sacred Habitat
Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era
in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and
ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred
Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new
scholarly approaches, methods, and empirical data from their
studies of ecology to promote Catholic goals and incorporate
American nature into centuries-old church traditions.
Ran Segev examines the interrelated connections between
Catholicism and geography, cosmography, and natural history-fields
of study that gained particular prominence during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries-and shows how these new bodies of knowledge
provided innovative ways of conceptualizing and transmitting
religious ideologies in the post-Reformation era. Weaving together
historical narratives on Spain and its colonies with scholarship on
the Catholic Reformation, Atlantic science, and environmental
history, Segev contends that knowledge about American nature
allowed pious Catholics to reconnect with their religious
traditions and enabled them to apply their beliefs to a foreign
land.
Sacred Habitat presents a fresh perspective on Catholic
renewal. Scholars of religion and historians of Spain, colonial
Latin America, and early modern science will welcome this
provocative intervention in the history of empire, science,
knowledge, and early modern Catholicism.
eBook
Ecological Moral Character
An ecological model through which we can imagine
Aquinas' vision of moral character
The images we use to think about moral character are powerful.
They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in
which moral character develops. However, this aspect of virtue
ethics is rarely discussed.
In Ecological Moral Character, Nancy M. Rourke creates
an ecological model through which we can form images of moral
character. She integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision
and describes the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the
processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem. The
virtues, the passions, the will, and the intellect, are also
described in terms of this model.
Ecological Moral Character asks readers to choose
deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and
offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a
period of environmental crisis.
eBook
China's old churches : the history, architecture, and legacy of Catholic sacred structures in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province
\"China's Old Churches, by Alan Sweeten, examines the history of Catholicism (1600 to the present) as reflected by the location, style, and details of sacred structures in three crucial north China areas. Examined are the most famous and important churches in the urban settings of Beijing and Tianjin as well as lesser-known ones in rural Hebei Province. Missionaries built Western-looking churches to make a broad religious statement important to themselves and Chinese worshippers. Non-Catholics, however, tended to see churches as socio-politically foreign and invasive. The physical-visual impact of church structures is significant. Today, restored old and new churches are still mostly of Western style, serving a growing number of Catholics who actively support a Marian movement\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Language, Charisma, and Creativity
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
eBook
The bishop's man : a novel
Father Duncan MacAskill, already troubled by years of being the bishop's \"hatchet man\", is sent to a parish church near where he grew up, only to find the memories of the past and new temptations setting him on a possibly disastrous path.
Book
Encounters with modernity
During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the \"psy sciences,\" were debated and introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through its analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.
eBook