This paper examines popular indigenous religiosity in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca 1990s, context a “progressive” pastoral program formed within campaign New Evangelization, and attuned to region’s large population. Based on ethnographic research an urban Oaxacan context, I offer account Catholic ritualization death which highlights its independence, sensuous, material, collective orien...

This essay spotlights Byron’s emphasis on Dante’s Catholicism in The Prophecy of Dante. It demonstrates how unusual this was an age that studiously avoided Catholicism. argues distinctive approach to Italy’s ‘national’ poet we learn something fundamental about and why Byron read not just Dante but Italian literature generally. did turn - as many his contemporaries order recreate it, transform a...

In this article, I look at how popular hymnody and the surrounding devotional liturgical practices changed after Second Vatican Council in Hungary. The songs amongst authoritarian, atheistic circumstances sounded astonishingly similar to emerging “folk mass movement”. discourse analysis of Hungarian contributes a new perspective Eastern European Catholicism helps us understand “lived Catholicis...

he common good has been defined within Roman Catholicism as "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, cither as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.'' Given that nursing is a major contributor to health care, this article analyzes the relationship between nursing practice and the conceptualizations of the common good. Major challenges to...

Positioning Catholic Studies within religious studies highlights the question of "what is a tradition?" and simultaneously allows us to do three things: elaborate a non-essentialist second order understanding of the concept of tradition appropriate to Religious Studies, study Catholicism as a tradition that has been created and maintained through first order reflection on the meaning of traditi...