Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Farrell O'Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break...
by Thomas P. Rausch SJ, Catherine Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
What is Catholicism? And where is the Catholic Church headed in the third millennium? These two questions provide the structure for Thomas Rausch's Catholicism in the Third Millennium. Here Rausch combines a faithful presentation of the tradition with a critical theological reflection and interpretation...
by Consumer Dummies
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Grasp the beliefs and practices about one of the world's oldest religions
Catholicism All-In-One For Dummies is your all-inclusive guide to the Catholic Church and its billions of followers. You'll learn how Catholicism came to be, how it's practiced, and where it stands socially and politically...
The New Anti-Catholicism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic...
Catholicism: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Teach Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CATHOLICISM, ALL IN ONE PLACE
This is your go-to guide to the Catholic faith. It covers the basics and history of Catholicism, the Catholic Church today and teachings and traditions. It is your comprehensive and essential account of Catholic doctrine, faith and history.
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Catholicism
A Journey to the Heart of the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Catholicism takes a path less traveled in leading us to explore the faith through stories, biographies, and images.”—Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
What is Catholicism? A 2,000-year-old living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism...
The Anthropology of Catholicism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers...
by William J. Collinge
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
With about one billion members, the Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest religious bodies, and its history is crucially linked to global events. In the Historical Dictionary of Catholicism, author William J. Collinge provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the theology,...
Rediscover Catholicism
A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Over the past 20 years, Matthew Kelly has seen more of the world than most presidents and more of the Church than most bishops. Now, in this unique and timely book, he proposes that Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations , but a way of life designed by God to help each person reach...
The Truth of Catholicism
Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Catholic Church may be the most controversial institution in the world. Whether the question is the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the relationship of Catholicism to other religious communities, the meaning of freedom, the use and abuse of sex, the dignity of human life from conception until natural...
Evangelical Catholicism
Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from...
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism
Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the...
In Search of an American Catholicism
A History of Religion and Culture in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, distinguished Catholic historian Jay P. Dolan explores the way American Catholicism has taken its distinctive shape and follows how Catholics...
Postsecular Catholicism
Relevance and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Catholic Church faces the challenge of maintaining its relevance in an increasingly secularized society. On issues ranging from sexuality and gender equality to economic policy and social welfare, the church hierarchy is frequently out-of-step with Catholics and non-Catholics alike. In Postsecular...