scholarly journals Simeón ("del desierto") y el vino triste hecho carne alegre...

2013 ◽  
pp. 19-63
Author(s):  
Felicia María Muñoz López de Lerma
Keyword(s):  
Literary Works ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Egyptian Monasticism

This article analyzes in detail Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del desierto, according to sources related to Egyptian monasticism and taking into account some literary works known by the Spanish director. Therefore, it focuses on the pictorial, historical and literary intertextuality of the film, emphasizing also the scenes in which the cinematographic technique reveals contents. The director’s ideology, that can be traced back from his “autobiography”, Mon dernier soupir, is also considered, as well as its reflection in the film. Finally, the paper addresses Buñuel’s connection with the surrealist movement and how all these circumstances affect to his interpretation, his parody of the History of Christianity, and also his conception of Christian religion.

“Complexio Oppositorum”?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mosse
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Over Time

This chapter concerns Roman Catholicism in rural Tamil society as the product of shifting socio-political and institutional conditions. It argues that narratives of ‘Christian modernity’ — deepened and made more sophisticated with recent ventures in this field (Robbins 2004, Keane 2007) — have drawn attention away from settings where Christianity was introduced in ways that facilitated its localization within existing social and representational structures; where rather than disrupting existing socio-political arrangements it provided another means for their reproduction. At the same time, it shows how an over-commitment to the idea of cultural continuity fails to detect the ways in which, over time, participation in the realm of ‘Christian religion’ opened space for types of thought and action beyond traditional roles, and altered modes of signification within indigenous systems that were/are socially transformative. The tension between continuity and rupture in the history of Christianity in south India, and the co-existence of apparently antithetical moral traditions and social spaces— the ‘complex of opposites’—is bound up with five hundred years of fraught and shifting understandings of the categories of ‘religion’ and ‘culture’ themselves.

The Decline and Fall of the True Christian Church: The English Deist View

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Hillerbrand
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

AbstractChristian Deism broke radically with the past and had its starting point in the notion that Christianity, as it was known, was perverted and no longer represented in the true and apostolic faith. Many of the titles of most of the Deist's books expressed this dismay over the state of the Christian religion, the need for re-interpretation of the nature of the true gospel and for reform. While most books reflected on the matter, the individual perspectives differed on the questions: Whom to blame for this fall? How to date it? What was the correct issue? The article argues that it was not the contention of the English Deists that some churches had erred in some points, but that all the churches had erred in all points: The entire system of the Christian religion was perverted. Their view of the history of Christianity was intimately connected with their view of the person and significance of Jesus.

Christianity in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Different Parts

This book charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity. The book traces how Christianity evolved from a religion defined by the culture and politics of Europe to the expanding polycentric and multicultural faith it is today—one whose growing popular support is strongest in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, and other parts of Asia. The book sheds critical light on themes of central importance for understanding the global contours of modern Christianity, illustrating each one with contrasting case studies, usually taken from different parts of the world. Unlike other books on world Christianity, this one is not a regional survey or chronological narrative, nor does it focus on theology or ecclesiastical institutions. The book provides a history of Christianity as a popular faith experienced and lived by its adherents, telling a compelling and multifaceted story of Christendom's fortunes in Europe, North America, and across the rest of the globe. It demonstrates how Christianity has had less to fear from the onslaughts of secularism than from the readiness of Christians themselves to accommodate their faith to ideologies that privilege racial identity or radical individualism.

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