The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.
No Religion without Idolatry offers an interpretation of Mendelssohn¿s general philosophy and discusses for the first time his semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his commentaries.
This book shows how Maryknollers transformed the social and religious culture in Peru and, at the same time, were also transformed in their beliefs, methods, and practices.
Book delivers an important and original analysis of presidential power, legislative-executive relations, party politics, and rule of law in Peru from 1985 through 2006.
The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore how to practice a commitment to the preferential option for the poor.
This is the first book-length exposition of Russell¿s unique method for relating Christian theology and the natural sciences, which he calls ¿creative mutual interaction.¿
This book examines the coexistence of crony capitalism and traditionally democratic institutions such as political competition and elections in Russia after the collapse of communism.
Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor.
Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform.
This book is a collection of essays Robert F. Griffin, C.S.C., wrote for Notre Dame Magazine in which he considers many of the challenges that beset church and campus.
Examines churches and chapels built on campuses during the twentieth century to reveal declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American university.
This volume contains contributions by literary critics and historians who demonstrate that theater and law were not simply relevant to each other in the early modern period, they explore the physical spaces in which early modern law and drama were performed, the social and imaginative practices that energized such spaces, and the rhetorical patterns that make the two institutions far less discrete and far more collaborative than has previously...
In his new book, Saints As They Really Are, priest and scholar Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These ¿saints-in-the-making¿ show all their doubts and imperfections as they reflect on their search for God and their efforts to lead holy lives. They are gifted yet ordinary women and men trying to follow Christ within their flawed and broken humanity¿¿saints as th...
