Horizons of the Sacred

Horizons of the Sacred

Author: Timothy Matovina

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1501731963

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Horizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying the faith and lived religion of Catholics of Mexican descent living in the United States. Religious practices, including devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebration of the Day of the Dead, the healing tradition of curanderismo, and Good Friday devotions such as the Way of the Cross (Via Crucis), reflect the increasing influence of Mexican traditions in U.S. Catholicism, especially since Mexicans and Mexican Americans are a growing group in most Roman Catholic congregations.In their introduction, Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella analyze the ways Mexican rituals and beliefs pose significant challenges and opportunities for Catholicism in the United States. Original essays by theologians, historians, and ethnographers provide a rich interdisciplinary dialogue on how religious traditions function for Mexican American Catholics, revealing the symbolic world at the heart of their spirituality. The authors speak to the diverse meanings behind these ceremonies, explaining that Mexican American (and other Latino) Catholics use them to express not only religious devotion, but also ethnic identity and patriotism, solidarity, and, in some cases, their condition as exiles. The result is a multilayered vision of Mexican American religion, which touches as well on issues of racism and discrimination, poverty, and the role of women.


Still Listening

Still Listening

Author: Norvene Vest

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2000-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0819218146

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Cutting-edge essays, written by seasoned spiritual directors, which examine a variety of new frontiers in spiritual direction in the 21st century.


Sacred Dread

Sacred Dread

Author: Brenna Moore

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268035297

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In Sacred Dread, Brenna Moore examines the life and writings of Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), one of the few women to contribute to this French Catholic revival movement.


In Our Own Words

In Our Own Words

Author: Juliet Mousseau

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0814645208

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Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today's world.


Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Author: Bronislaw Szerszynski

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1405137770

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This provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings. Nature, Technology and the Sacred introduces a radically new direction for today's critical discourse concerning nature and technology – one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West.


To Tell the Sacred Tale

To Tell the Sacred Tale

Author: Ruffing, Janet K., RSM

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1587689006

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This book shows the singular importance of narrative in the process of spiritual direction and reflects on this interactive process of sharing our sacred stories in pastoral contexts in order to hear and respond more deeply to the story God is telling in our lives.


This Sacred Life

This Sacred Life

Author: Norman Wirzba

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1316515648

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This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.


Teaching Religion and Healing

Teaching Religion and Healing

Author: Linda L. Barnes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-10-19

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0190291982

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The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume that "medicine" and "biomedicine" are one and the same and that when religion and medicine are mentioned together, the reference is necessarily either to faith healing or bioethics. Scholars of religion also have tended to assume that religious healing refers to the practices of only a few groups, such as Christian Scientists and pentecostals. Most are now aware of the work of physicians who attempt to demonstrate positive health outcomes in relation to religious practice, but few seem to realize the myriad ways in which healing pervades virtually all religious systems. This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions and cultural communities. An invaluable resource for faculty in anthropology, religious studies, American studies, sociology, and ethnic studies, it also addresses the needs of educators training physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as "cultural competence" - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.