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Seville's Holy Week processions exaggerate gender roles
Posted: August 4, 2017 - 10:18am
Holy Week processions in Seville show a quite explicitly gendered form of religiosity, one that repeatedly allows for displays of masculinity even in a society that has become much more egalitarian, and in confraternities that today are open to men and women.
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Seville's streets flooded with 60 processions throughout Holy Week
Posted: July 31, 2017 - 4:20pm
Semana Santa processions are unparalleled in Seville, where 60 official processions traverse the center city throughout Holy Week from afternoon deep into the night.
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Spain's Holy Week processions engage masses
Posted: July 31, 2017 - 3:18pm
In many cities in Spain, and elsewhere in the Iberian-influenced world, Semana Santa — Holy Week — is marked by major public processions that recount and ritualize the events of the Passion, providing a visual catechism and giving the masses a chance to participate in the story.
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Faith and family hand in hand, divorce illegal in the Philippines
Posted: June 5, 2017 - 11:57am
Filipinos participate in religious events as families, often as extended families. More often than not, the family is the unit of analysis.
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Introduction: Catholicism holds near monopoly on religious life in Spain
Posted: May 17, 2017 - 9:54am
Even while Spain is a European Union member country with much more open borders and integration into Europe, Catholicism has a near monopoly on the religious life of the country.
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In Israel, language connects worship to Jewish traditions
Posted: May 3, 2017 - 2:42pm
Liturgy is inculturated in a number of interesting ways. The Jewish origins of Catholic liturgy become even more apparent when Mass is celebrated in Hebrew.
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Foreign workers, refugees comprise sizable Catholic contingent in Israel
Posted: May 2, 2017 - 11:27am
In a country created and shaped by immigration, temporary foreign workers and refugees — from the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and parts of Africa — comprise a sizable Catholic contingent.
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Some Israeli Catholics see saints as distraction from relationship with God
Posted: May 2, 2017 - 10:49am
Post-biblical Catholic saints seem not to occupy a particularly significant place in the religious imaginations of Hebrew-speaking Catholics.
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Hebrew-speaking Catholics find fellowship in Israel
Posted: May 1, 2017 - 1:11pm
The Hebrew-speaking Catholic community was founded by — and still is composed of — men and women who by birth and self-understanding belong to the Jewish people, and Catholics who come from non-Jewish backgrounds but emigrated with Jewish family members. Most seek to find Catholic ways of living that harmonize with Jewish culture.
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Introduction:Israeli Catholics live faith in Jewish context
Posted: May 1, 2017 - 9:49am
Each of Israel's Catholic communities is defined by particular hopes, aspirations and cultural bonds, and each faces a different challenge in defining itself in relation to Judaism and the state of Israel.
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