This article presents a mapping of the changing religious landscape Latin America, specifically focusing on place Catholicism therein. It explores how varying forms in America reflect reality mixed modernities, described as “tiempos mixtos” (Waldo Ansaldi), where elements pre-modern, modern, and late modern worldviews values are intertwined ways very different from those North Atlantic West. By...

More than six decades after its publication, Horace Miner’s 1956 article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” remains a reliable pedagogical tool, remarkably successful in helping students see their own ethnocentric biases. Catholics & Cultures has potential to do similar work. The site lacks some of what makes text so effective, particular capacity bring about sudden shift perception. also shares ...

This essay overviews key aspects of Stratford Caldecott’s idea liberal arts education, within the Roman Catholic tradition and especially focuses on centrality Eucharist in his thought. It also considers how, according to Caldecott, education contains a kind liturgical affordance or sympathy with form nature worship (within Catholicism). In so doing, this paper offers, date, most substantive sc...

Reacting sharply against the whiggish thesis that religious tolerance was a heritage of Enlightenment, revisionist scholars have pointed to many pragmatic concessions people made tolerate those other faiths prior eighteenth century. While they underscored contingent relationship with neighbourliness in important case studies, historiography portrays early modern London as an essentially intoler...

The articulation between religion, politics and the law in contemporary European societies is a complex matter. In this article, we argue that classical secularization approaches fail to capture ambivalent form of Catholicism Europe, advance an alternative approach reconsiders two elements: temporality social space. Firstly, propose adopt “eventful temporality”, which enables consideration impa...