A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II
Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of the religious population. Yet, Catholics of African descent have been a part of Catholicism ......
A study of Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and Israel, offering an exploration of biographical narratives and reflections on Holocaust trauma, conversion, Zionism, and religious identity.
The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China
Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which Chinese, rather than Europeans, ......
The Nun in the Synagogue documents the religious and cultural phenomenon of Judeocentric Catholicism that arose in the wake of the Holocaust, fueled by survivors who converted to Catholicism and emigrated to Israel, as well as by Catholics determined to address the anti-Judaism inherent in the church. Through an ethnographic study of ......
Mercy in Action explores Pope Francis's remarkable efforts to renew catholic social teaching. The book examines what he has said, done, and written on six critical issues-economic inequality, worker justice, the environment, family life, refugees, and peacemaking-and highlights both continuity and change in Catholic social teaching.
The Works of Mercy introduces readers to the seven corporal and spiritual works of mercy, then invites readers to explore mercy in their everyday lives. The third edition features more inclusive language for readers of all faith backgrounds or none, new case studies, and new material on how Pope Francis and his papacy reflect mercy.
This is the first book to focus in depth on Pope John Paul II's fourteen encyclicals, through which he communicated many of the key themes of his papacy. The first part of the book provides helpful background information on the pope's life and teachings, while the second part of the book comprehensively discusses the encyclicals.
Foundational Theology grounds foundational theology in the normative drive towards meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. This work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition.
The Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights
Building upon the historical framework of the development of Catholic social thought, drawing deeply from the papal encyclical tradition and the theological and ethical developments of Vatican II, the author forwards a constructive vision of virtue and social practice, applying this critical question of human rights on the international stage.
