Religión, pobreza y modernidad

Este libro es el resultado de una amplia investigación sobre el fenómeno religioso realizada en las calles de la Ciudad de México. El autor se acerca al mundo del comercio ambulante o "ambulantaje" y al transporte público de pasajeros para estudiar las creencias religiosas de esas poblaciones. En México, hipotetiza el autor, se está dando una reconfiguración religiosa propia de una sociedad que transita aceleradamente por la modernidad. El libro ofrece además una interesante perspectiva teórica del fenómeno religioso en occidente, una breve presentación del proceso de...

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En nuestra boda declaramos amor incondicional, pero es raro que se practique en la vida real. Como resultado, la esperanza del verdadero amor es reemplazada por decepción. El Desafío del Amor se ha traducido a 23 idiomas, ha vendido más de 5 millones de copias y fue el argumento de la popular película Aprueba de Fuego. Es el No. 1 de los más vendidos en el New York Time. Hoy en día continua siendo un éxito de librería desde su debut en el 2008. Es una experiencia devocional de 40 días para el marido y la esposa para entender y practicar el amor incondicional. No importa la situación ...

The essential thoughts of Pope John Paul II on matters of belief and conscience have been culled from his encyclicals, speeches, homilies, and statements to fellow bishops and collected in one volume. Throughout his more than two decades as the leader of the world’s Catholics, John Paul II has spoken both officially and informally on all aspects of life in the modern world. Whether defining the Church's teachings or passionately espousing the basic human rights of all people, whether speaking from his throne in the Vatican or from a platform set up on a soccer field, the Pope has always...

Using the perspectives of history, pastoral theology, and cultural studies, the author presents a brief, popular, and informative introduction to the way that Catholicism has come to be practiced throughout Latin America, and is finding itself practiced in more and more multicultural Latino parishes in the United States. It looks also at the lived experiences of Latino Catholics in the Carribean, Mexico, Central or Meso America, the Northern Andes, The Southern Andes, The Southern Cone, and Brazil. It examines the cultural and theological particularities of Latin American Catholicism as...