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The Ambivalence of the Sacred

Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

By: R. Scott Appleby

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The Ambivalence of the Sacred

Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

By: R. Scott Appleby

This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847685551

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9780847685554

Catholics in the American Century

Recasting Narratives of U.S. History

By: R. Scott Appleby,Kathleen Sprows Cummings

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Catholics in the American Century

Recasting Narratives of U.S. History

By: R. Scott Appleby,Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created the largest private school system in the nation; and established a vast network of hospitals, orphanages, and charitable organizations. Yet in both scholarly and popular works of history, the distinctive presence and agency of Catholics as Catholics is almost entirely absent. In this book, R. Scott Appleby and Kathleen Sprows Cummings bring together American historians of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place in the national myth of origins and ends. A long overdue corrective, Catholics in the American Century restores Catholicism to its rightful place in the American story.

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Cornell University Press

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0801465206

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9780801465208

Fundamentalism or Tradition

Christianity after Secularism

By: Aristotle Papanikolaou,George E. Demacopoulos

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Fundamentalism or Tradition

Christianity after Secularism

By: Aristotle Papanikolaou,George E. Demacopoulos

Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in Tradition when surrounded by something like the “secular”? These essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean, they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not relativistic. Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis, Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelić, Nadieszda Kizenko, Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver

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Fordham University Press

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0823285812

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The Ambivalence of the Sacred

The Ambivalence of the Sacred

Catholics in the American Century

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