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  • Catholicism in Italy in the Age of Pluralism

    by Franco Garelli ...
    Religious pluralism is increasing due to progressively more culturally interactive societies and an escalating exchange of migrants. Nevertheless, as this book shows, the situation in Italy is characterized by several distinct features. Statistically, the level of religiosity is noticeably higher than in other European countries, and the majority of the population declares itself Catholic. Within ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Religion Italian Style

    Continuities and Changes in a Catholic Country

    by Franco Garelli ...
    Series series AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series
    Italy’s traditional subcultures - Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Republican, Right-wing - have largely dissolved and yet Catholics have retained their vitality and solidity. How can the vast majority of Italians continue to maintain some connection with Catholicism? How much is the Italian situation influenced by the closeness of the Vatican? Examining the religious condition of contemporary Italy ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

    by Joseph Ratzinger, Marcello Pera ...
    On May 12, 2004, Pope Benedict XVI - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-addressed the Italian Senate on the state of the West; the very same day, Joseph Pera, President of the Italian Senate, spoke before the Lateran College of the Papal University. Together they called upon the West to confront the spiritual, cultural, and political malaise that have afflicted it in the earliest years of the 21st ... Read more

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  • Disarming Beauty

    Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom

    by Julián Carrón ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement's founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays by one of the principal Catholic leaders and intellectuals in the world today. Adapted from talks given by Fr. Carrón, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Ethics for Today

    Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

    by Richard Rorty, G. Elijah Dann ...
    One of the most widely discussed philosophers of the 21st century finds common ground between spiritual and secular ethics in this provocative book.As controversial and he was influential, Richard Rorty developed a brand of philosophical pragmatism that rejects all theories of truth. His groundbreaking work also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Contesting the Renaissance

    by William Caferro ...
    Series series Contesting the Past
    In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.An influential investigation into the nature of the European RenaissanceSummarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the RenaissanceEngages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Catholic Discordance

    Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis

    by Massimo Borghesi ...
    2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention Pope Francis2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in English translation editionOne element of the church that Pope Francis was elected to lead in 2013 was an ideology that might be called the “American” model of Catholicism—the troubling result of efforts by intellectuals like Michael Novak, George Weigel, and Richard John Neuhaus to ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Network

    Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

    by Paul D. McLean, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • From What We Should Do to Who We Should Be

    Negotiating Theological Reflections and Praxis in the Context of Hiv/Aids Among the Igbos of Nigeria

    by Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku ...
    HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The ... Read more

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