“…Será hasta el siglo XIX que los españoles se vanaglorien de la conquista de México, como parte de su construcción nacional, mientras que en México se imponía la visión contraria, la de víctimas seculares del abuso europeo. La conquista de la identidad estudia las obras de arte, o su ausencia, sobre la conquista de México en ambas orillas del Atlántico y la relación que este hecho crucial de la historia guarda con la construcción de las identidades de cada país -- Contracubierta…”

“…Para ello, se clarifica el alcance de la noción de ministro de culto en los ordenamientos jurídicos seculares, se analiza el uso de ese término en el Derecho internacional y se ofrece una panorámica completa sobre la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos relativa a los ministros de culto. …”

“…The Sacred occupies an important dual position in this context: marking an autonomous sphere of the Holy, endangered and upstaged by processes of modernization, and at the same time a fundamental trait of sociality, culture and normativity in general, thus providing the basis even still for modern, ‘secularized’ forms of collective beliefs. The current volume is comprised of contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives dealing with a wide range of topics in the realm of normativity in order to recall these important issues and demonstrate the influence and moment of Durkheim’s thinking on matters of the Sacred and the law…”

“…Second, the volume shows how Newman’s thought can be insightfully applied to key issues within church and society: the need to redefine “American” Catholicism, the challenge of secularization, the role of Christian joy, revelation and religious diversity, progress traps and the ecological crisis, and overcoming post-modern individualism. …”

“…Además de traer un ejemplo de cómo probar el dolo y la imprudencia, la teoría busca responder cuestiones seculares de la doctrina penal, como: ¿qué hacer con las consecuencias accesorias de una conducta dolosa? …”

“…¿Por qué su retraso a propiciar este acercamiento y reconocimiento a diferencia de la mayoría de organizaciones seculares, e incluso de otras iglesias? ¿Y por qué la iglesia es tan lenta a la hora de intentar ayudar y proteger a un grupo de personas que a menudo corre el riesgo de sufrir acoso, palizas y violencia? …”

“…Taking seriously the retro and the futuristic temporalities of cuteness, this volume puts in conversation projects that have unearthed remnants of a “cult of cute”—positioned historically and critically in between transitions into secularization, capitalist frameworks of commodification, and the enchantment of objects—and those that have investigated the uncanny haunting of earlier aesthetics in future-oriented modes of cuteness…”

“…Yet again and again the same causes of disagreement arise: interpretation and application of authoritative texts, appropriate ways to remember and memorialize figures from the past, the extent to which traditional leadership roles should (or should not) change in keeping with new cultural or political contexts, the degree to which long-held beliefs and long-practiced rituals are (or are not) susceptible to modification or abandonment, and the tension members of a Jewish community may feel when their leaders make pronouncements at odds with the political policies of the secular state in which they live. Written accessibly, the essays in this collection examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. …”

“…Thief in the Night), and the instructional video-films of Dobson’s Focus on the Family--assessing the extent to which the church’s commitment to filmmaking accelerated its missions and demonstrating that its filmic endeavors had the unintended consequence of contributing to the secularization of liberal denominations…”

“…Grabowski lays out where gender ideology comes from and identifies its sources—the poisonous currents of modern secularism, the chaos of the sexual revolution, and the ever-expanding reach of technology. …”

“…Thomistic Principles and Bioethics presents a significant philosophical viewpoint which will motivate further dialogue amongst religious and secular arenas of inquiry concerning such complex issues of both individual and public concern…”

“…El autor defiende la suprarracionalidad como justificación última para proteger la religión, el valor intrínseco de lo religioso y la posibilidad de que los ordenamientos jurídicos seculares reconoczcan a Dios sin merma de su secularidad. …”

“…The essays in the first part develop six distinct conceptual lenses through which to view American education, including Privatism, Secularism, Pluralism, Religious Literacy, Religious Liberty, and Democracy. …”

“…What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. …”

“…Por eso, el destinatario de este libro es todo creyente, grupo cristiano, comunidad religiosa, miembros de institutos seculares y equipos apostólicos que desean meditar y orar, personal y comunitariamente, al ritmo de la palabra de Dios cada día del año, así como quienes han de transmitir y explicar a otros la riqueza de la palabra de Dios cada domingo del año…”

“…Participants explored the relationships between modernization and identity, secularism and religion, traditional and Western ideas, and reform and external assistance. …”

“…Add other developments-secularism, the growth of Christianity in the Global South, economic change, the impact of social scientific insights, and a host of widely acknowledged obligations related to the environment, social media, privacy, religious freedom, gender, racism, harassment, transparency, etc. …”

“…En este imprescindible volumen se exploran los estilos, compositores, géneros y obras fundamentales, así como la tensión entre tradición e innovación, pero también abarca una amplia variedad de estilos, religiosos y seculares, serios y humorísticos, cultos y populares, de todo el mundo. …”

“…The thesis presented is that in Latin America there is an interaction between modernity and religion, but the result has not been religion diminishment (secularization), but its transformation. Exploring religion as ordinary Latin Americans practice it, we discovered that there is more religion than secularists expect, but of a different kind than religious leaders would wish. …”

“…So too in Sweden – a country widely described as one of the most modern and secularized societies in the world. In this volume, a group of researchers in history, human rights, law, ethics and sociology of religion address some of the most central issues around conscience and the liberty of conscience in Sweden from the middle ages to the present. …”