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A peste, fame, bello libera nos domine
No full textThis volume aims to take up the theme of the relationship between faith and pestilence, which, despite its topicality, is rooted in a long-term dimension that involves different areas of knowledge.
A markedly disciplinary look brings together historical, theological, political, and juridical analyses and thus allows to understand this relationship through paradigms, turning points, continuities, and discontinuities. Such a wide perspective makes it possible to observe how the theme has crossed ages and religions, from the fathers of the church, to medicine in medieval Islam, up to contem- porary times, with Ivan Illich’s harsh critique of forced medicalization and the issues that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic
Secularism and religious literacy
No full textThe lack of knowledge of the signposts – religious illiteracy – renders a phenomena illegible, transforming migrants into potential terrorists and ‘radical’ faith into an excess to be feared. In 2007, Charles Taylor’s milestone work, A Secular Age, marked the beginning of a new reflection on secularization. In Taylor’s philosophical perspective, secularism is no longer a goal achieved through human progress, nor is it the only refuge of reason where human rights and globalization can leave aside national, cultural or religious boundaries. The ways in which the religious and the secular not only imagine themselves but also take on actual form through norms, customs, recognized rights, denied protections, narrated stories and recollected memories have the power to determine the degree to which religions may take part in public discourse. Educational systems, the mass media and public actors play a pivotal role in the construction of knowledge and of what we call religious literacy
Different illitercies for different countries: are there no data for religious illiteracy?
No full textThe book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy and its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of the historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational conditions within which it arises. Divided into four parts, in the first one, One literacy, more literacies?, the book defines the basic concepts underpinning the question of religious illiteracy in Europe. Part II, Understanding illiteracies, debating disciplines?, highlights the theological, philosophical, historical and political roots of the phenomenon, looking at the main nodes that are both the reasons religious illiteracy is widespread and the starting points for literacy strategies. Part III, Building literacy, shaping alphabets, examines the mix of knowledge and competences acquired about religion and from religion at school as well as through the media, with a critical perspective on what could be done both in the schools and for the improvement of journalists’ religious literacy. Part IV, Views and experiences, presents the reader with the opportunity to learn from three different case studies: religious literacy in the media, religious illiteracy and European Islam, and a Jewish approach to religious literacy. Building on existing literature, the volume takes a scientific approach which is enriched by interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives, and deep entrenchment in historical methodology
European religious illiteracy: the historical framework of a removed agenda
No full textThe definitions of religion accumulated over the years have often been studied in terms of their reach and development. Such a variety allows to resort to some formulation and to regard religion as the ‘free assumption of a superior moral obligation by men and women immersed in a culture’. Basic illiteracy excluded the subordinate from reading and writing, and was used as a tool of public policy not to extend political participation and civil development. Religious illiteracy proceeds, on the contrary, from the rupture of an existential metric system that is typical of modernity a l’ancienne. The religious illiteracy that is revealed in the rupture between the self-secularized and ‘native’ agnostics has been reinforced by an equally important rupture within the knowledge and learning pertinent to the religious sphere. Reflecting on European religious illiteracy in its historical dimension means looking at a decisive problem for the future of European societies in the medium term
Le chiese nella strategia di Reagan in America Centrale. Il caso del Nicaragua nel decennio sandinista
No full textThe Church and the Black Death
No full textHistorical excursus on the interpretations and reactions of the Church and society based on Christian values to the circumstances in which major epidemics occurred and on the meaning assigned to the ‘plague’, with particular attention to the events of the mid 14th century
Resilient Septuagint Between Borges and Asimov: A State-of-the-Art Case of uBIQUity
No full textThis essay discusses the state of the art in information retrieval within the field of the Greek versions of the Bible, outlining open problems and possible solutions on the basis of the PRIN Project Resilient Septuagint (a project funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU Mission 4 Component 2 CUP: J53D23013060001 Prot. 20229E83B3
La satira blasfema anti ebraica
No full textL'autore presenta in questo studio le dinamiche psichiche che stanno dietro l'uso della blasfemia, identificandole ad esempio una, come parte del processo di costruzione della propria identità, e ritenendo che ridicolizzare il diverso costituisca una variante ludica della violenza, tipica delle maggioranze e del loro potere sulle minoranze. La satira blasfema si basa spesso su equivoci semantici, in cui si usano le stesse parole che tuttavia hanno significati diversi nelle diverse culture che si scontrano. Si pensi al concetto di Messia cristiano ed ebraico, totalmente diversi. Ancora, la blasfemia costituisce spesso una proiezione sul diverso del sistema di valori di chi lo ridicolizza. La satira blasfema antiebraica si connota come grave patologia umana e forma di isteria dell'assoluto, di averne il possesso e l'esclusiva. La satira contro l'ebreo si è espressa nel mondo cristiano come rovesciamento negativo dei miti cristiani: il cristiano che si nutre del corpo di Cristo profuma di odor suavitatis, mentre al contrario l'ebreo, che si dice profanare l'ostia, puzza come il demonio. Dopo un cenno all'anti ebraismo di Lutero, il testo passa ad esaminare l'equivocità intrinseca dei grandi codici delle tre religioni monoteistiche, i quali, senza una luce ermeneutica possono essere usati per cause non solo diverse, ma di segno opposto. In realtà nella Torah, nella Bibbia cristiana e nel Corano si trova tutto e il contrario di tutto: solo la luce di un interpretazione improntata ai valori essenziali e ad un atteggiamento dialogico, non isterico, senza assolutismi nei confronti dei diversi, può guidare gli aderenti ai valori di questi codici in una corretta lettura, e gli uomini a vivere nella fraternità. Questo ideale è stato perfettamente descritto cinquant'anni fa nel documento del Vaticano II Dignitatis humanae sulla libertà e primato della coscienza nell'adesione a una qualsiasi religione
Devotions in Rome During the Cholera Epidemic of 1837
No full textIl saggio intende analizzare le implicazioni religiose e devozionali del colera che giunse a Roma nel 1837 e il difficile rapporto tra le gerarchie ecclesiastiche e la classe medica romana
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