Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Sheed & Ward
Pages: 304
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-3183-3 • Hardback • February 2004 • $152.00 • (£117.00)
978-0-7425-3184-0 • Paperback • February 2004 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Sister Paula Jean Miller, FSE, is director of Catholic Studies and associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Richard Fossey is a professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston and a senior consultant at the Center for Reform of School Systems in Houston, Texas.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Literature and Art: Embodiments of the Faith
Chapter 5 Overview: Catholic Culture in Literature and the Art
Chapter 6 Jane Austen's Catholic Sensibility
Chapter 7 Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and the Art of Christian Mercy
Chapter 8 Story Theology in Flannery O'Connor's "The River," John Updike's "The Christian Roommates," and Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal
Chapter 9 The Tree of the Choctaws: Live Oaks in the Poetry of Father Adrian Emmanuel Rouquette
Chapter 10 The Theological Virtues in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Chapter 11 Santiago in the Americas: The Iconography of the Conqueror and the Infidel
Part 12 Culture and Holiness
Chapter 13 Overview: Mary as Human Exemplar
Chapter 14 Our Lady of Jasna Gora in Polish Catholicism
Chapter 15 Marian Devotion and Cultural Influence in the Naming of Churches
Chapter 16 Literary Appropriation of Mary in the Spanish-Speaking World
Chapter 17 Marian Devotion in the Spiritual Life of Saint Rose of Lima
Chapter 18 Saints and Sanctity in France
Chapter 19 Lucie Christie: 19th Century Wife, Mother, and Mystic
Part 20 Transforming Interrelationships: Catholic Faith and Secular Society
Chapter 21 Overview: Secular Society and the Catholic Imagination
Chapter 22 The Import of Latino Spirituality for the 21st Century: U.S. Culture, Politics, and Religion
Chapter 23 "False Generosity" Toward Inner-City School Children: Why the Fierce Opposition to Vouchers for "Sectarian" Schools?
Chapter 24 Journey to Faith: Issac Hecker and Nineteenth-Century American Reform
Chapter 25 Catholic Indian Boarding Schools and Sioux Catholicism
Chapter 26 Catholic Insight on Workplace Human RIghts and Corporate Humanism
Chapter 27 Image and Social Responsibility: Catholic Values and Fashion Advertising
Chapter 28 Catholic Faith Between Secularization and Pluralism
Chapter 29 Restoring All Things in Christ: Some Reflections on the Pastoral Provision for the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite
Chapter 30 Appendix A: Darkness into Light: Guadelupe, Mother of all Mexico
Phenomenal ! No book better brings forward the catholic in Catholicism. Readers of all faiths (and non-faiths) will be impressed by the 'rebirth of the human spirit,' found in these essays. This is a book for our times, now and in the future.
— William E. Doll Jr., Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Louisiana State University
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape does exactly that. Its essays provide a spiritually enlightening journey into the depth and breadth of the relationship between Catholicism and culture.
— Thomas C. Hunt, professor at the University of Dayton and co-editor of Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice
The Catholic intellectual tradition has long provided means of addressing issues of justice, care, and community within the college classrooms. Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape provides reflective and contemporary essays on the evolution of this tradition in the arts, humanities and social sciences, providing new foundations for making these vital linkages. It provides interesting reading for lay faculty in colleges and universities of all types.
— Edward P. St. John, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University
The unity of Catholic faith makes possible a rich variety of culture adaptation. This fascinating collection of essays illustrates this fundamental feature of Catholicism in ways that fulfill the hopes of Vatican II. Ranging through literature, spirituality, and social justice, it will be an inspiration to Catholic universities seeking to strengthen their true identity and interdisciplinarity.
— Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., Aquinas Institute of Theology, St.Louis, MO.
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape is a remarkable anthology of readings which provide both a sense of Catholicism's rich cultural diversity and its intellectual coherence. The anthology offers an accessible introduction to the range and unity of Catholic thought and to the diversity of its cultural expressions and will be especially useful for an undergraduate audience. But the work will also be of interest to anyone who seeks to explore these issues in greater depth. The work is an important achievement.
— Don J. Briel, director of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota