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Author : Matthew Anthony Fitzsimons,Jean Bécarud
Publisher : Notre Dame [Ind.] : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCAL:$B771350
Author : Gerd-Rainer Horn,Emmanuel Gerard
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9058670937
Decisively shaped by the turbulent atmosphere of war, occupation and resistance, the years 1943-1955 gave rise to a most unusual flowering of progressive initiatives in Catholic politics, theology and apostolic missions. Though suffering severe setbacks in the deep freeze of the Cold War politics, mid-Century European Left Catholicism was not without influence in the subsequent emergence of Latin American Liberation Theology and the deliberations of the Vatican II. This volume constitutes the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon of Western European Left Catholicism from a comparative and transnational perspective.
Author : Gerd-Rainer Horn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199593255
This is the first detailed survey of the radical dynamic unleashed by the innovations of Vatican II. It highlights the intellectual and activist contribution by Catholic thinkers, priests, and laypersons in shaping the turbulent decade of the 'sixties' in Western Europe. The book focuses on five crucial contributions by Catholic activists and communities to the burgeoning atmosphere of those turbulent years and aims to highlight a moment in the recent history of European society when Catholic communities were acting as indispensable motor forces of radical political and societal change.
Author : Leo Kenis,Patrick Pasture
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9789058676658
KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, Volume 6Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses on the complex transformations Christian churches in Western Europe have undergone since World War II. In English and French.
Author : Jan de Maeyer,Sofie Leplae,Joachim Schmiedl
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9058674029
In the 19th century, religious institutes (orders and congregations) underwent an unprecedented revival. As partners in a large-scale religious modernisation movement, they were welcomed by the Roman Catholic Church in its pursuit of a new role in society (especially in the educational and health-care sectors). At the same time, the Church also deemed it necessary to keep their spectacular growth in check. Until the 1960s religious institutes played an important role both in society at large as well as within the church (for example, at the level of the missions, liturgy and art). Yet, relatively little research has been done on their development either in ecclesiastical or in broad cultural history. As a basis for further study, The European Forum on the History of Religious Insitutes in the 19th and 20th Centuries offers this study of the historiography of religious institutes and of their position in civil and canon law.
Author : Hugh McLeod,Werner Ustorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139438155
Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book, historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.
Author : Eric O. Hanson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400858606
Eric Hanson's multifaceted book examines the place of the church in the contemporary international system and the reciprocal influence of modern political and technological developments on the internal affairs of the church. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Gerd-Rainer Horn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191548086
Western European Liberation Theology is the first comprehensive survey of the development of a distinct, progressive variant of Catholicism in twentieth-century Western Europe. This Left Catholicism served to lay the basis for the subsequent events and evolutions associated with Vatican II. Initially emerging within the boundaries of Catholic Action, fuelled by the growing power and self-confidence of the Catholic laity, a series of challenges to received wisdom and an array of novel experiments were launched in various corners of Western Europe. The moment of liberation from Nazi occupation and world war in 1944/45 turned out to be the highpoint of these optimistic paradigm shifts. Concentrating on interrelated developments in theology, Catholic politics and apostolic social action, Gerd-Rainer Horn integrates evidence from Italian, French and Belgian national contexts. Drawing on his research in over twenty archives between Leuven and Rome, he highlights the role of organisations, social movements, and intellectual trends. The pivotal contributions of key individuals are assessed, from theologians such as Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier, to the millenarian activist priests, Don Zeno Saltini and Don Primo Mazzolari. In conclusion Horn suggests that first-wave Western European Left Catholicism served as an inspiration - and constituted a prototype - for subsequent Third World Liberation Theology.
Author : Sebastian Rimestad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000227611
This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world. Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fields reveal a discursive vitality outside of the traditionally Orthodox societies that is, however, only partly reabsorbed by the church hierarchs in core Orthodox regions, like Southeast Europe and Russia. The Orthodox Church is a complex and multi-faceted global reality.Therefore, this book will be a vital guide to scholars studying the Orthodox Church, ecumenism and religion in Europe, as well as those working in religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology more generally.
Author : François Foret,Xabier Itçaina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136636417
Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations. The secularization of Europe is often understood according to the concept of ‘multiple modernities’—the idea that there may be several roads to modernity, which do not all mean the eradication of religion. This framework provides support for the view that different traditions, societies and groups can come to terms with the components of modernity (capitalism, democracy, human rights, science and reason) while keeping in touch with their religious background, faith and practice. Contributors examine the interaction between EU-integration processes and Western European countries, such as Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Austria, Scandinavia, Italy, and the UK, and shine fresh light on the economic and cultural contexts brought about by relationships between politics and religion, including immigrant religions and new religious movements. This volume combines theoretical perspectives from political sociology and international relations to consider the role of religion as a source of power, identity and ethics in institutions and societies. Politics of Religion in Western Europe will be of interest to scholars of politics, religion, the European Union and political sociology.
Author : P. Kratochvíl,T. Doležal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137453785
As the first comprehensive monograph on the relations between the Catholic Church and the European Union, this book contains both a detailed historical overview of the political ties between the two complex institutions and a theoretical analysis of their normative orders and mutual interactions.
Author : Michael P. Fogarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351386722
First published in 1957, this book is a detailed analysis on Christian Democracy, a movement backed by Protestants as well as Catholics, which has become one of the great social forces of Western Europe. It is strong in eight countries. The first half of Fogarty’s book sets out what the many Christian-Democratic movements stand for. The second part of the book shows how these movements began, how they have grown, changed, and consolidated, and how they developed into the mid-20th century. This is a broad and useful survey which delves the history, nature and significance of the Christian Democratic movements in Europe. In Fogarty’s analysis, Christian Democracy may indeed bring about a renewed unity of the Christian tradition in Western society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475856248
The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties, political leaders and elections. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students. Now in its 39th edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student budgets.
Author : Kevin J. Wright
Publisher : St. Francis of Assisi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0764801023
A tapestry of Catholic life in the United States, this guide takes readers to more than 500 churches, shrines, monuments, schools, & monasteries across the country. Covering popular locations such as Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York, the Alamo in San Antonio, & the University of Notre Dame, as well as more obscure stops such as the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans, the Grotto in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, & the Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest in L'Anse, Michigan, the book visits both well-known & lesser-known sites from all parts of the U.S. Also included are remarkable stories like that of the Philadelphia church for which Babe Ruth hit a home run, the eight-seat Iowa chapel, & the Texas museum housing the art of a nun whose work the Nazis banned. A cornucopia of fascinating details, The Liguori Guide to Catholic U.S.A. provides brief histories & descriptions of each of the places profiled, as well as addresses & telephone numbers. Photos of more than fifty of the locations are also included. Essential for Catholic travelers & pilgrims, summer vacationers, retired Catholics, college students, armchair travelers, Catholic trivia & history buffs, or anyone interested in places Catholic, this book enables readers to seek out the places that continue to inspire, refresh, & renew the Catholic spirit.
Author : Elijah Jong Fil Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610979702
Global Christianity has been experiencing an unprecedented historical transition from the West to the non-Western world. The leadership of global Christianity has taken on a new face since the twentieth century. Christendom in Europe and America has experienced a great decline while there has been a rise in Majority World Christianity. Churches in the Global South have given their voices to global Christianity through their leadership, world mission movements, and theology. The phenomenal church growth has risen from the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Pentecostalism has become the dominant force in global Christianity today. The Rise of the Global South examines the significance this shift has had on global Christianity by going through the history of Christianity in the West and the causes of the shift.
