... Alston religious life divine action metaphysic intentional action functionalism agency In the preceding chapter I argued that the concept of action is an open concept rather than a closed concept. While there are sufficient conditions for the predication of action discourse, and while...

...This chapter describes the religious life at the concentration camps in Argentina, with special attention to the situation in La Perla, the camp where the La Salettes were tortured. A team of military personnel specializing in Córdoba’s Catholic realm conducted the interrogation sessions. They were...

... vocations generational categories Vatican II religious life volunteer service religious life spirituality mission religious leadership associates vowed religious who are associates? Most associates are laywomen and laymen who participate in some way in the spirituality and mission...

... of immigration reform. Catholic laity Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate CARA Gautier Mary L immigration Johnson SND Sr Mary Oblate School of Theology priests sisters Trinity Washington University vocations religious life Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill brothers religious institutes...

... of the scholarly activities of the Salisbury canons can be interpreted as a practical application of their approach to the religious life. Their biblical studies indicate a particular concern for questions of morality and discipline, and the patristic literature they acquired to support such studies displays...

... of bewilderment and even awe before intimate journeys. It throws light on a major shift in the atmosphere of religious life from a culture of blame and shame toward one of cordial if nervous tolerance. Mystery lingers because the impulse to share once-secret feelings runs up against a dread of violating privacy...

... and worship have been portrayed as “extreme” in their violence and eroticism. There are several places where Kālī is most decidedly at the center of religious life, among Brahmans and Dalits alike. Oddly, those places are located at the geographical edges of the Indian subcontinent: Nepal, Assam, Bengal...

..., Jewish legal status, communal organization, and religious life also were transformed and Jewish identity was reshaped. immigrants Central European in seventeenth century immigrants East European before 1870 mobility economic in eighteenth century population of Jews in Britain Bath Birmingham...

... life. However, this development was accompanied by indifference to ritual and worship, ignorance of Jewish learning and lore and radical assimilation which threatened the demographic health of the Jewish community. By the end of the twentieth century, the religious life of Anglo-Jewry was more diverse...

... Indians and Catholicism South Asians and Catholicism Calvinism Indonesians and Catholicism Islam National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Catholicism Asian Americans Catholics Catholic Studies ethnicity religious life religious identity Catholic Church immigrants refugees A standard...

... for the religious life.” Extant Buddhist monastic law codes, however, preserve stories about men “leaving home” to become monks with their young children, and children who, after joining the monastery, still call their monk-fathers “Daddy.” There are also narratives of mothers and daughters who leave home...

... neighborhoods, yet Italian religious practices differed. In South Philadelphia's Annunciation and St. Thomas, parish boundaries were reinforced by religious life. By contrast, a geographically elastic Italian ethnicity characterized the associational meetings, hockey league matches, and street processions of St...

...This book offers a range of critical perspectives on the academic study of religion and emotion, in the form of syntheses, provocations, and prospective observations. The academic study of religion has recently turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life...

... strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to religious life in this period....

.... It is where family, gender, and the nature of the individual are understood. It is also where the basic elements of cosmology and religious life and the elemental context for the understanding of political and economic life are lived and perceived. Here public and private realms are forged; nature/culture...

... Acts as the word is used in Luke's Acts of the Apostles. Recent monographs by Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle and John W. O’Malley have characterized Ignatius's Acts as a “mirror of vainglory” and “a mirror of apostolic religious life” respectively. This study argues...

... writers is of a distinctive aesthetic genre, generated by a characteristic dynamic between the intellectual structures and imaginative resonances of individual works. Interpretive writers are fascinated by the stuff of religious life, which appeals to their imaginations, but their scientific sides also...

... career as it intersected with the city's evolving religious life. In a process similar to that experienced by Dutch Reformed and Scottish Presbyterian traditionalists, devotees of Whitefield's brand of Christianity overcame ingrained habits and embraced novel religious ideas. During his seven-week...

...-nineteenth century. This chapter examines New Bedford's antebellum economy and occupational distribution. It discusses the city's early industrialization, with special reference to the Wamsutta Textile Mills, and looks at its networks of capitalism, enlightened governance, religious life and reform...

... with the noninstrumental realm. violence sacrifice religious life ethical life political life self-transcendence war state Sacrifice is an essential phenomenon of religious, ethical, and political life. In its two senses, as “sacrificing to” and “sacrificing for,” the linguistic use of the term covers immensely...