This 37th issue of Ciberteologia – theological and cultural magazine – a result of a successful partnership between Paulinas Editora and the Center for Migration Studies in Rome, which was directed until the beginning of 2011 by the priest Lorenzo Prencipe, and is a member of the G. B. Scalabrini International Federation of Centers for Migration Studies. It is a collection of articles written about recent developments concerning Migrations and Theology.
This collection, organized by Prof. Giovanni Graziano Tassello of the Basel chapter of the Center of Studies (CSERPE), published originally in Italian, brings to the Brazilian readers some contributions by studious of several theological sciences that analyze the situation and the development of reflections on such current issue.
Journal of Theology & Culture
Issue 37 - Year VIII - January/February/March 2012 - ISSN: 1809-2888
Editorial
The religion of migrants: between ghettoizing withdrawals and the possibility of a new social cohesion
Lorenzo Prencipe
What is the role religion takes today in the process of integration within societies that are increasingly plural from a cultural and religious viewpoint? In the current post-secular era, characterized by the rejection of the notion of modernization linked to the end of religious beliefs, it is acceptable the idea that the plurality of religions must be accorded a space in the public debate, that the policies of integration must not ignore the religion of migrants, and that all this must happen in the mutual respect of the autonomy of state and religion.[...]
Black and white characters in school books for religious education
Sergio Luis do Nascimento
The article presents some considerations about the analysis of the discourses on racial black and white segments in school books for religious education in the 5th and 8th grades of elementary schools, published between 1977 and 2007. His analysis was done in the interpretative contexts of the theory of ideology (Thompson, 1995) [...]
The passionate search for the meaning of life
Francisco Surian
Villas Boas, Alex. Theology and poetry: the search of meaning amid passions in Carlos Drummond de Andrade as possibility of a theological-poetic thinking. Sorocaba: Crearte Editora, 2011, 252 pages.
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A God that calls to sanctity
Hermilo Eduardo Pretto
In this issue Ciberteologia continues the reflections by the theologian and professor of theology Hermilo Eduardo Pretto who died in 2004. He has observes that the theme of sanctity, which is essential in the Christian experience, reveals itself as complex due to the elements that oppose each other. On one hand the blooming [...]
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Cinema: source, expression and exchange of sensibility
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At times of a revision of life, of the “sacrament of conversion” I bring you two films that, although not on show at the moment, may be easily hired. For a period of greater interiorization I offer you the film Everything is Illuminated.
However, interiorization can only find its greatest meaning when it turns outwards [...]
Redemption on the subway
By Jorge Claudio Ribeiro*
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