While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in experience of mysticism rarely emphasized. However, had an impactful mystical young woman, the themes this echo throughout body work. This paper paints portrait both profoundly scholar–activist spiritually attuned seeker very divinity that she encountered twenties. In pr...

Religion and food culture are two closely related topics in the Christian discourse have been subject of extensive anthropological research. This paper takes Boston Chinese Catholics as a case study, it adopts an ethnographic research methodology to explore ways which sense belonging develops Church community, based on analysis this context. mainly Fujian Hong Kong immigrants, class, status, ec...