Author: Catherine M. HarmerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795001505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Religion in the 21st Century
Author: Margit WarburgPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409480860
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalization, as it has brought people around the world in closer contact with each other. In this book internationally leading scholars from sociology, law, political science, religious studies, theology and the religion and science debate, take stock of the current interdisciplinary research on religion and open new perspectives at the cutting edge of the debate on religion in the 21st century.
Religious Life in the 21st Century
Author: O'Murchu, DiarmuidPublisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336565
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This seminal work surveys the historical rise and fall of religious orders and congregations and reveals an unfolding pattern that gives hope for the present and future.
Author: William R. MurryConversations at the Well
Author: Jung Eun Sophia ParkPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532649770
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Are religious women in the United States disappearing and finally dying out? Or is there any new way of religious life emerging? Conversations at the Well tries to respond to this question. In the twenty-first century of the global world, newly emerging religious life would be rooted with the Jesus Movement and develop in the spirit of collaboration, networking, and intercultural living. As the liminal space, religious life is located at the margins, subverting the existing social order and creating a new vision for the world. This book explores an alternative meaning of religious life within the context of the apostolic mission. In this new religious life, the concept of community is not limited to living as a community in the convent, but extended into collaborating friendship. Primarily, the apostolic religious life is deeply related to social justice, delinking the global capitalism in which many people suffer from human trafficking, immigration, and exile. The new leader of religious women would require skill in handling uncertainty, amplifying resources, and opening to the new reality. In this new religious life, spirituality would be articulated as freedom and liberation to let go of the old frame, as well as letting the new life become reality. In this way, as radical disciples, religious women in the twenty-first century embody the Jesus Movement, building bridges between different cultures and people.
Religious Life in the 21st Century
Author: Diarmuid Ó MurchúPublisher:
ISBN: 9781626982079
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This seminal work which surveys the historical rise and fall of religious orders and congregations reveals the fundamental dispositions that these institutions need to integrate into a new spirituality and sense of mission. These include:* Being faithful to the new Reign of God as a companionship of empowerment* Internalising a cyclic sense of the paschal mystery in history* Embracing God's creation as our primary eschatological space* Learning from the great Foundresses, including Mary Josephine Rogers* Reading the signs of the times of the 21st century
Author: Michael Beck
Author: Ewert CousinsReligious Life and Priesthood
Author: Maryanne ConfoyPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809144549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"Religious Life and Priesthood reclaims the vision of Vatican II for contemporary priests, religious, and ecclesial ministers." "The book examines the historical context, the key players, and the implementation of Vatican II documents on the priesthood, the training of priests, and the religious life."--BOOK JACKET.
New Faces, New Possibilities
Author: Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814667406
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Religious sisters have created educational and healthcare systems over the past two hundred years that have transformed the Catholic community in the United States. Through their ministry, sisters have served waves of immigrants and those pushed to the margins. The growing cultural diversity of newer sisters and the diminishing number of older sisters, therefore, is both a challenge and a creative moment to be critically examined. This book examines these changes in culture and ethnicity among sisters, the structural impact of diminishing numbers, and the creative response to this new reality for religious life in the United States. In it, sisters from a variety of generations, cultures, and institutes join with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) researchers to examine and reflect on CARA's recent research findings and their impact on the life and ministry of sisters today.
