The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant inf
This firsthand account details the life of Jean Vanier and his L’Arche movement—a revolutionary group of disabled and nondisabled individuals that started in 1964. L’Arche (French for Noah’s Ark) welc
Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy explores the often subtle and sometimes harsh realities of life on the Venetian mainland. Focusing on the confraternity of Santa Maria dei Battuti and its Osped
In this groundbreaking history of the intercollegiate YMCA, David Setran details the critical role of this organization on American campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By ex
As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas
What was once taboo - faith at work - is increasingly accepted in corporate America. From secretaries to CEOs, growing numbers of businesspeople today want to bring their faith to work. Yet they wre
To conspiracy theorists, Opus Dei is a highly secretive and powerful international organization. To its members, however, Opus Dei is a spiritual path, a way of incorporating the teachings of Jesus in
Scholars have long recognized the significant role that confraternities, or lay brotherhoods, played in the religious life of medieval and early modern Catholicism. As well as helping shape the devoti
An account of American missionary activity abetted by Mexican nationalists. L?zaro C?rdenas, president of Mexico 1934–40, is widely remembered as the most nationalistic and populist Mexi
Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integr
The study of the confraternity movement in early modern Ukraine is vital for our understanding of the unique place Ukrainian culture and society have occupied between Eastern and Western Christianity.
Though powerful currents of conservatism certainly remained within Catholicism after 1930, argues Gauvreau (history, McMasters U.) there was a growing ideological diversity in the Quebec Church marked
Wiegele (anthropology, Northern Illinois U.) examines a charismatic Catholic movement that has gathered people for miracle and healing rallies since the early 1980s in the Philippines. Documenting its
Since the early 1980s, approximately ten million people have turned to charismatic businessman-turned-preacher "Brother Mike" and his Catholic "prosperity" movement, El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fo
