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The mystery and the world [electronic resource] : passion for God in times of unbelief / Maria Clara Bingemer ; foreword by Peter J. Casarella ; translations by Jovelino and Joan Ramos

Author
Bingemer, Maria Clara Lucchetti
Published
Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2016]
Physical Description
xxv, 376 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Casarella, Peter J., Ramos, Jovelino, and Ramos, Joan
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Contents
Premature or late modernity: a question of culture -- Secular culture and the crisis of religion -- Religious or mystical experience: a new moment, a new configuration, new challenges -- Mystical biographies and theological narrative -- Stories and experiences of love -- Conclusion.
Summary
"During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live today, the so-called postmodernity, late modernity, or hypermodernity. In this context, one of the most profound impacts is most certainly the one on religion. During the twentieth century, religion proved not to be banished from the human horizon as the masters of suspicion intended. Known as the godless century, the twentieth century saw also a resuscitation of the search for the sense of life and spirituality. With the crisis of modern reason, humankind turned toward consumerism and provisional and "light" practices. The last century represents not only the height of the postmodernization process but also the rescue of the transcendent and absolute, even if it is an absolute without face and identity. It is in this scenario that religious experiences, apparently exiled by modern rationality, begin to occur and multiply again. Mystical experiences will be, then, the basis for highlighting recurrent characteristics with universal import. But they will show a different configuration than before. One will be able to find them not in so-called sacred spaces but in very secular ones; not so much within institutions but at the borders, or even outside them; not configured by a specific tradition but in an interface that makes more than one tradition meet and dialogue." --
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ISBN
9781625641069 (paperback)
1625641060 (paperback)
9781498284967 (hardback)
1498284965 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-368) and index.
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