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The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism

Author : Megan C. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108832472

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Explores the Holy Land as a critical site where Catholics sought spiritual and political legitimacy during a period of profound change.

The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto

Author : Karin Vélez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691174006

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In 1295, a house fell from the evening sky onto an Italian coastal road by the Adriatic Sea. Inside, awestruck locals encountered the Virgin Mary, who explained that this humble mud-brick structure was her original residence newly arrived from Nazareth. To keep it from the hands of Muslim invaders, angels had flown it to Loreto, stopping three times along the way. This story of the house of Loreto has been read as an allegory of how Catholicism spread peacefully around the world by dropping miraculously from the heavens. In this book, Karin Vélez calls that interpretation into question by examining historical accounts of the movement of the Holy House across the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century and the Atlantic in the seventeenth century. These records indicate vast and voluntary involvement in the project of formulating a branch of Catholic devotion. Vélez surveys the efforts of European Jesuits, Slavic migrants, and indigenous peoples in Baja California, Canada, and Peru. These individuals contributed to the expansion of Catholicism by acting as unofficial authors, inadvertent pilgrims, unlicensed architects, unacknowledged artists, and unsolicited cataloguers of Loreto. Their participation in portaging Mary’s house challenges traditional views of Christianity as a prepackaged European export, and instead suggests that Christianity is the cumulative product of thousands of self-appointed editors. Vélez also demonstrates how miracle narratives can be treated seriously as historical sources that preserve traces of real events. Drawing on rich archival materials, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto illustrates how global Catholicism proliferated through independent initiatives of untrained laymen.

Sacred Boundaries

Author : Keith P. Luria
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813214115

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Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies that confessional difference often seems an unavoidable source of conflict. Sacred Boundaries challenges this assumption by examining relations between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority in seventeenth-century France as a case study of two religious groups constructing confessional difference and coexistence

Storied Places

Author : Virginia Reinburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483117

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Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. This book explains how this came about.

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

Author : Jeffery Abood,Jeffery M. Abood, Sir
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1505440181

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A compilation of the Catholic Church's experience in the Holy Land in its' own words. Assembled here for the first time in one place, is a series of official Church statements, documents, articles, and interviews collected from over a seventy year time span. It is the uncensored, authentic voice of the Church in the Holy Land and it continues to faithfully call out to us.

The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World

Author : Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317016786

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In the Early Modern period - as both reformed and Catholic churches strove to articulate orthodox belief and conduct through texts, sermons, rituals, and images - communities grappled frequently with the connection between sacred space and behavior. The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World explores individual and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and regulation of sacred spaces and the behavior (both animal and human) within them. The individual’s understanding of sacred space, and consequently the behavior appropriate within it, depended on local need, group dynamics, and the dissemination of normative expectations. While these expectations were defined in a growing body of confessionalizing literature, locally and internationally traditional clerical authorities found their decisions contested, circumvented, or elaborated in order to make room for other stakeholders’ activities and needs. To clearly reveal the efforts of early modern groups to negotiate authority and the transformation of behavior with sacred space, this collection presents examples that allow the deconstruction of these tensions and the exploration of the resulting campaigns within sacred space. Based on new archival research the eleven chapters in this collection examine diverse aspects of the campaigns to transform Christian behavior within a variety of types of sacred space and through a spectrum of media. These essays give voice to the arguments, exhortations, and accusations that surrounded the activities taking place in early modern sacred space and reveal much about how people made sense of these transformations.

John Paul II in the Holy Land-- in His Own Words

Author : Yehezkel Landau,Michael B. McGarry
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809143178

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John Paul II in the Holy Land-- in His Own Words by Yehezkel Landau,Michael B. McGarry Pdf

"Pope John Paul II has been the undisputed leader in fostering Jewish-Christian dialogue for over twenty-five years. He has labored intensely to change the hearts and minds of both sides and has never been afraid to acknowledge the sins committed by Christian people against Jews. His visit to the Middle East in March 2000, when he was able to visit the places where Jesus had lived and walked, was a moving and extraordinarily rich experience, both for him personally and for the Catholic Church. However, it also gave rise to a certain amount of rumor and misunderstanding among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim residents of the region. This book addresses these doubts and suspicions by documenting the pope's itinerary and recording the speeches that the pope gave at each stop along the journey. Replete with commentaries by Yehezkel Landau of Hartford Seminary and Michael McGarry of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, along with maps and photos, this book is a historical record of a most historic pilgrimage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material

Author : Jenni Kuuliala,Rose-Marie Peake,Päivi Räisänen-Schröder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030155537

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Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material by Jenni Kuuliala,Rose-Marie Peake,Päivi Räisänen-Schröder Pdf

This book discusses the ways in which early modern hagiographic sources can be used to study lived religion and everyday life from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. For several decades, saints’ lives, other spiritual biographies, miracle narratives, canonisation processes, iconography, and dramas, have been widely utilised in studies on medieval religious practices and social history. This fruitful material has however been overlooked in studies of the early modern period, despite the fact that it witnessed an unprecedented growth in the volume of hagiographic material. The contributors to this volume address this, and illuminate how early modern hagiographic material can be used for the study of topics such as religious life, the social history of medicine, survival strategies, domestic violence, and the religious experience of slaves.

Sacred Habitat

Author : Ran Segev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096490

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Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622–1908

Author : Matteo Binasco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319959757

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Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622–1908 by Matteo Binasco Pdf

This book builds upon research on the role of Catholicism in creating and strengthening a global Irish identity, complementing existing scholarship by adding a ‘Roman perspective’. It assesses the direct agency of the Holy See, its role in the Irish collective imagination, and the extent and limitations of Irish influence over the Holy See’s policies and decisions. Revealing the centrality of the Holy See in the development of a series of missionary connections across the Atlantic world and Rome, the chapters in this collection consider the formation, causes and consequences of these networks both in Ireland and abroad. The book offers a long durée perspective, covering both the early modern and modern periods, to show how Irish Catholicism expanded across continental Europe and over the Atlantic across three centuries. It also offers new insights into the history of Irish migration, exploring the position of the Irish Catholic clergy in Atlantic communities of Irish migrants.

Boundaries of Faith

Author : Jill R. Fehleison
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612480022

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At the political and religious crossroads where John Calvin and the Protestant Reformation had taken hold, the Catholic Diocese of Geneva struggled to convert their Protestant neighbors back to the Catholic Church while maintaining a tradition of piety and a firm disciplinary hand. This critical study examines the success of Catholic counter-reform in key rural villages and looks at the significant role played by Bishop François de Sales, who had the unusual challenge of dealing with the two political authorities of Savoy and France. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, including visitation records of bishops and other diocesan documents, Jill Fehleison contributes to our understanding of early modern Catholicism as it addressed the challenges of coexisting with Protestantism.

Apostles of Empire

Author : Bronwen McShea
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496214492

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Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as missionaries. Most labored in colonial New France, a vast territory comprising eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region that was inhabited by diverse Native American populations. Although committed to spreading Catholic doctrines and rituals and adapting them to diverse indigenous cultures, these missionaries also devoted significant energy to more-worldly concerns, particularly the transatlantic expansion of the absolutist-era Bourbon state and the importation of the culture of elite, urban French society. In Apostles of Empire Bronwen McShea accounts for these secular dimensions of the mission’s history through candid portraits of Jesuits engaged in a range of secular activities. We see them not only preaching and catechizing in terms that borrowed from indigenous idioms but also cultivating trade and military partnerships between the French and various Indian tribes. Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism. McShea shows how the Jesuits’ robust conceptions of secular spheres of Christian action informed their efforts from both sides of the Atlantic to build up a French and Catholic empire in North America through significant indigenous cooperation.

Holy Ground

Author : Chris Castaldo
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780310292326

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Chris Castaldo takes readers on a fascinating and practical exploration of the challenges and opportunities encountered by Catholics who become Evangelicals. More than just theological insight and historical background, Holy Ground shows you how to emulate the grace and truth of Jesus as you relate to your own Catholic past and the Catholic faith of those you love.

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation

Author : Elizabeth C. Tingle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514135

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Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints’ cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. France, the Low Countries and the British Isles were places of disputation and hostility between Protestant and Catholic; sacred landscapes and journeys came under attack and in some regions, were outlawed by the state. Taking as case studies hugely popular medieval shrines such as Compostela, the Mont Saint-Michel and Lough Derg, the impact of Protestant criticism and Catholic revival on shrines, pilgrims’ motives and experiences is examined through life writings, devotional works and institutional records. The central focus is that of agency in religious change: what drove spiritual reform and what were its consequences for the ‘ordinary’ Catholic? This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality, and sacred space.

Conflict and Conversion

Author : Tara Alberts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191641121

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Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This region conjured visions of the exotic in the minds of early modern Europeans, and became an important testing ground for ideas about the nature of conversion and the relationship between religious belief and practice. Some Southeast Asians adopted Christianity - and even died for their new faith - while others resisted all incentives, menaces, and cajolement to reject their original spiritual beliefs and practices. In this volume, Tara Alberts explores how Catholicism itself was converted in this encounter, as Southeast Asian neophytes adapted the faith to their own needs. Conflict and Conversion makes the first detailed exploration of Catholic missions to the diverse kingdoms of Southeast Asia and provides a new connective history of the spread of global Christianity to this crossroads of the world. This volume focuses on three areas which represent the main cultural and religious divisions of the broader region of Southeast Asia: modern-day Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. In each of these areas, missionaries had to engage with a variety of political and economic systems, social norms, and religious beliefs and practices. They were obliged to consider what adaptations could be made to Catholic ritual and devotions in order to satisfy local needs, and how best to counter local customs deemed inimical to the faith, which obliged them to engage with fundamental questions about what it meant to be Christian. Alberts seeks to uncover the conflicts over these issues, and the development of the concept of conversion in the early modern period.