Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and CulturePaulist Press, 2003 - 208 من الصفحات Faith and Culture has become a field of crucial importance in recent years. Clashing Symbols breaks new ground in presenting a wide area of reflection on the relationship between faith and the powerful cultural contexts surrounding believers today. Michael Paul Gallagher introduces readers to the main insights, theories, and controversies being discussed by individuals and church bodies. Early chapters discuss the many meanings of culture, then specifically religious responses to culture, focusing on Vatican II and resolutions from the World Council of Churches. Themes concerning modernity and postmodernity are explored in detail, especially from a religious point of view. The final four chapters deal with more pastoral themes: the challenges of inculturation, discernment, youth ministry and the outlines of a spirituality for today's culture. Drawing on the work of some of the leading thinkers in the field, this clearly written work is a natural for specialists and academics. It will also be valuable for anyone who wishes to understand the increasing relevance of culture for theology and for religious commitment today. In addition, it will also help "ordinary" Christians to understand the realities and challenges of contemporary culture with wisdom, with confidence, and in the light of faith. + |
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... meanings . In a now famous and controversial article , entitled ' The Clash of Civilizations ? ' , Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard Univer- sity argued that future conflicts ' will not be primarily ideological or primarily ...
... meanings . In a now famous and controversial article , entitled ' The Clash of Civilizations ? ' , Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard Univer- sity argued that future conflicts ' will not be primarily ideological or primarily ...
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... meaning ' in contemporary society ; it also tries to examine the interaction between power , values , mass media and imagination . There is a widespread insistence that ' cultural studies ' represents a radical break with the old ...
... meaning ' in contemporary society ; it also tries to examine the interaction between power , values , mass media and imagination . There is a widespread insistence that ' cultural studies ' represents a radical break with the old ...
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... that matrix ' . And he goes on at once to note that once the meaning of culture widens from the ' classical notion ' to the ' empirical notion of culture ' as involving ways of life , then Introduction : Culture as Cinderella 7.
... that matrix ' . And he goes on at once to note that once the meaning of culture widens from the ' classical notion ' to the ' empirical notion of culture ' as involving ways of life , then Introduction : Culture as Cinderella 7.
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... meaning , embodied in symbols , and subject to considerable evolution and even conscious change.12 From birth we are all surrounded by this omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent complex called culture , which is both external and ...
... meaning , embodied in symbols , and subject to considerable evolution and even conscious change.12 From birth we are all surrounded by this omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent complex called culture , which is both external and ...
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... meaning connected with intellectual or artistic activity . The next chapter will explore some of the many meanings associ- ated with culture . Monsieur Jourdain , in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , made the much - mocked discovery ...
... meaning connected with intellectual or artistic activity . The next chapter will explore some of the many meanings associ- ated with culture . Monsieur Jourdain , in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , made the much - mocked discovery ...
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A Major Theme of Vatican II | 41 |
Catholic Developments since 1965 | 49 |
The World Council of Churches A Different Approach | 63 |
Incoming Tides of Modernity | 75 |
Religious Responses to Modernity | 86 |
The Postmodern Situation Friend or Foe? | 98 |
Cultural Discernment | 129 |
Cultural Consciousness in Faith Ministry | 145 |
Towards a Spirituality of Culture | 157 |
Roots and Horizons | 169 |
Anthology of Quotations | 173 |
Notes | 177 |
Select Bibliography | 191 |
Debates about Inculturation | 115 |
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