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"Appearing six times a year, each 72-page issue will offer opportunities for dialogue between the experience and inheritance of Christian faith and the concerns of today's world, political, economic, artistic and religious. It will help the reader to become familiar with theological and spiritual insights, offering encouragement to live the Christian faith with greater vigor and joy admidst the practical realities of daily life./

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In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer faithful in new territories. The first missionaries to arrive in Japan were the Jesuits who were forced to adopt a different type of evangelization, with a bottom-up rather than a top-down approach. This volume shows that Japan turned out to be a land of experimentation and development of a global Catholicism, as well as an unprecedented laboratory of encounter between political, scientific and religious cultures in the age of the first globalization. It analyses the different conversion strategies developed by the Jesuit fathers towards various groups including samurai, Buddhist bonzes and Japanese peasants. A key step was the appropriation of sacred space by the missionaries: first in a violent way with the construction of large crosses and the destruction of temples, pagodas and pagan idols, then through strategies more flexible and accommodating of replacing pre-existing cultural practices. To be attractive, the Jesuit fathers had to compromise with local culture and spirituality, but they were also forced, in some way, to simplify and modify their very way of understanding and living Christianity. The book also reflects on the reasons for the failure of this ambitious Catholic conversion project: the hostility of the Japanese ruling class, the irreducibility of a different culture and spirituality, but also, if not above all, the rise of internal rivalries in Catholicism between Jesuits, Franciscans and Dominicans. The book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the Jesuits, Catholic missions and Christianity in Japan.

Jesuits --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church --- History --- History --- Japan --- Japan --- Church history --- Church history

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"Seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hat die katholische Theologie in den USA Zug um Zug ein ganz eigenes, unverwechselbares Profil gewonnen: Indem sie die Glaubenslehre unter Einbeziehung der gesellschaftlichen und kirchlichen Wirklichkeit in den Vereinigten Staaten reflektiert, ist sie zugleich amerikanisch und katholisch. Im deutschsprachigen Raum sind bislang lediglich einzelne theologische Entwürfe bekannt. Eine umfassende Darstellung, die auch kulturelle, geschichtliche und politische Faktoren einbezieht, fehlt dagegen. Das Buch von Benjamin Dahlke schließt diese Lücke. Auf kundige Weise zeichnet der Autor die großen Entwicklungslinien der katholischen Theologie in den USA seit 1945 nach und bietet einen kompakten Überblick über eine bedeutende, eigenständige theologische Landschaft mit weltweiter Ausstrahlungskraft." --

Theology --- Theology --- Theology --- Theology --- History --- History --- Study and teaching --- History --- Study and teaching --- History --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church --- Doctrines --- History --- Doctrines --- History --- Teaching office. --- United States --- Church history

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"This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it contends that married priesthood has always existed in some form in the Catholic Church and that mandatory universal celibacy is the product of cultural and sociological contingencies, rather than sound doctrine. With attention to a range of problems associated with priestly celibacy, including sexual abuse, clerical shortages, loneliness, and spiritual sloth, In Defense of Married Priesthood argues that the Roman Catholic Church should permit marriage to the priesthood in order to respond to the challenges of our age. Presenting a sociologically informed alternative to the popular theological perspectives on clerical celibacy, this book defends the notion of the married priesthood as legitimate means of living the vocation of Catholic priesthood - one which is eminently fitting for the contemporary world. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, theology and sociology"--

Celibacy --- Catholic Church --- Married people in church work --- Child sexual abuse by clergy --- Clergy

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"This book explores how Judith Butler's work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, 'speaking the truth', can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theology of freedom. By starting from an analysis of power and the performative potential of gendered embodiment, freedom can be thought of as the basis of creative and critical human action and thereby implemented in theology. The chapters feature several theological-historical case studies that are representative of topics that continue to shape contemporary Catholic norms and thought. In particular, the author reflects on the thirteenth century with the idea of personal sin and confession, and the nineteenth century with a gender ideology that has led to the marginalization of difference and dissent. The book shows how Butler and Foucault can provide essential insights for Catholic theology and is valuable reading for scholars of religion, philosophy, and gender and sexuality studies"--

Liberty --- Philosophy and religion --- Gender identity --- Power (Philosophy) --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- Philosophy --- Butler, Judith, --- Foucault, Michel, --- Influence.