This article contributes to the understanding of symbiotic relationship between nonreligious and religious in religiously homogeneous cultures. Specifically, it examines centrality congruence fallacy narratives people. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with Polish nones, I chart ways which they make sense dominant model Polish-Catholic religiosity, commonly referred as ‘Polak-Katolik’. The fin...

When Catholicism was introduced into Vietnam, there also a tendency toward differentiation and even confrontation with Vietnamese culture, including Confucianism. This article focuses on the discussion between Confucianism from Ideological perspective, most basic concepts about belief related to God, popular religious activity, which is worshipping activities, social-moral code encompassing two...

This article considers the representation of adolescent female body and relevance corporeality in Catholicism three Western European films, which have at their centre religious confirmation. These are: Un poison violent (Love Like Poison, 2010, Katell Quilléveré), Corpo celeste (Heavenly Body, 2011, Alice Rohrwacher), Kreuzweg (Stations Cross, 2014, Dietrich Brüggemann). The sacrament confirmat...

During the late Ming Dynasty, with establishment of Calendar Bureau (历局) by Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) and recommendation missionaries Catholics to take part in revision calendar, Imperial Astronomical (钦天监) became an important institution for stay China played role dissemination development Catholicism. Until beginning Qing a government office most official Catholics. Missionaries were not only ch...

Abstract Pope Francis’s recent recognition of the death several priests active in Guatemala 1980s as martyrdom has reminded public a long-term hesitation within Catholicism to boundaries martyrdom. Key aspects history this played out seventeenth century. Several religious orders—most prominently Jesuits—argued for redefinition that would include so-called “martyrdom charity” (i.e. those who had...