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The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in
late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express
the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation'
of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form.
This book explores the lived experience of religion through its
material expressions, demonstrating how religion and spirituality
are given form and are thus far from being detached or ethereal.
Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the
contributors register the variety in which religions and religious
groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on
music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artifacts, dance, dress and
magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of
sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history,
liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.
The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in
late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express
the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation'
of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form.
This book explores the lived expression of religion through its
material expression, demonstrating how religion and spirituality
are given form, and are thus far from being detached or ethereal.
Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the
contributors register the variety in which religions and religious
groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on
music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artefacts, dance, dress and
magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of
sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history,
liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.
This compelling biography, covering the early years of the life of
St Josemaria Escriva, reads like a thriller. But it is much more
than a breathtaking adventure. Here is the story of a fugitive
priest at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, caught up in the
bloodbath of the religious persecution in which 13 bishops, 4,184
diocesan priests, 2,365 priests and brothers of religious orders
and 283 nuns were slaughtered. Through the personal and intimate
notes of this priest, we experience the terror unfolding day by
day. Amongst the chaos and horror there are vivid glimpses into the
soul of a man searching for sanctity in a world that has gone mad.
All the while, St Josemaria, after receiving a vision from God, was
slowly, but surely, spreading one of the most important spiritual
messages for our time: that holiness is not just for priests and
nuns, but for everyone. For an ordinary man or woman a way to
holiness can be found through daily work and the everyday duties of
a Christian. Here is the fascinating story of St Josemaria
Escriva's own work. Founding Opus Dei in 1928, he was a major
contributor to the rediscovery of the apostolate of the laity in
the Church. Born in 1902 in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees,
his inspiration has now spread throughout the world. St Josemaria
was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 6 October 2002. William
Keenan is a journalist, playwright and novelist. He writes a
regular column for the Catholic Herald and is the author of three
mystery novels and numerous plays for BBC radio. His plays include
Margaret Clitherow, the heroic story of the Catholic martyr from
York, a young wife and mother crushed to death for her faith in the
reign of Elizabeth I and now one of the canonized Forty Martyrs of
England and Wales; and Fatima, which recounts the apparitions of
Our Lady to the shepherd children.
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