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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Spiritual Migrants Of Sogenji: Notes Of Participant Observation In A Rinzai Zen Temple, Andrei-Razvan Coltea
The Spiritual Migrants Of Sogenji: Notes Of Participant Observation In A Rinzai Zen Temple, Andrei-Razvan Coltea
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Anomie is a cultural pathology that is becoming chronic in the West, characterized by the erosion of values, disintegration and deregulation. Amongst its symptoms we find anxiety, isolation, depression, tribalism, incoherence and loss of meaning. Individuo-globalism is a new ideology that permeates the religious market created by globalisation, encouraging individuals to discover, nurture and express their ‘true self’. This new spirituality forms the background for a journey that our ‘heroes’, a handful of non-Japanese inhabitants of a Japanese Rinzai Zen monastery, have been undertaking for years in search of the philosopher’s stone that could cure anomie and its symptoms. At …
Clocktower, Cholera And Covid19: Script For Television Program Broadcast As "With You In Spirit:Short Messages Of Hope And Encouragement From People Of Many Faiths And None., Alan Hilliard
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Jean Sulivan: Prophetic Voice With An Important Message For The Irish Church, Eamon Maher
Jean Sulivan: Prophetic Voice With An Important Message For The Irish Church, Eamon Maher
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The French priest writer Jean Sulivan (1913-1980), whose real name was Joseph Lemarchand, was born in the small village of Montauban-de-Bretagne. He lost his father in the trenches of the Great War, an event that led to the remarriage of his mother out of financial necessity and which came as a serious blow to her young son. He could never fully accept the presence of his step-father in the house even though he knew his mother had had no option other than to remarry if she wanted to hold on to the small farm she rented from a local doctor. …
What Is The Role Of Faith In Our Politics?, Eamon Maher
What Is The Role Of Faith In Our Politics?, Eamon Maher
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Forty years ago this month, Pope John Paul II came to Ireland. I was just beginning my last year in school at Saint Columb's College, Derry. It was a tense time. In the three months leading up to the pope's visit, 36 people were killed in the Troubles - including 16 Catholic and Protestant civilians. In 1979 I went to see the Pope at Drogheda and subconsciously I think his words on that occasion have possibly framed much of my thinking about this evening's theme - the role of faith in our politics.
Bernard Maclaverty: A Novelist With A Catholic Sensibiliy., Eamon Maher
Bernard Maclaverty: A Novelist With A Catholic Sensibiliy., Eamon Maher
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Like many others I would imagine, my first introduction to the work of the Belfast writer Bernard MacLaverty (born in 1942) was through the successful film adaptations of his first novel, Lamb, with Liam Neeson in the main role, and the highly successful ‘Troubles’ film, Cal, based on the novel of the same name. Nominated for several prestigious literary awards, a member of Aosdána, author of numerous well-regarded novels and short story collections, MacLaverty is nevertheless largely neglected in terms of the critical attention he has attracted. The shining exceptions are the essay collection, About Bernard MacLaverty: New …
How Religion Shaped Ireland's Cultural Heritage, Eamon Maher
How Religion Shaped Ireland's Cultural Heritage, Eamon Maher
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A Catholic Has No Allies, Eamon Maher
A Catholic Has No Allies, Eamon Maher
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FRENCH literature of the twentieth century was blessed by the r work of writers who were explicitly Catholic while also adorning the cuIturallife of their country. Anew collection by the French Dominican publishing house, Editions du Cerf, of the epistolary correspondence between four of France's best known Catholic literati - Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, Francois Mauriac and Jacques Maritain - reveals serious rifts and, at times, a definite lack ofChristian charity in the sentiments these men shared with one another.1 The correspondence centres on Maritain's exchanges with the other three, which is most probably due to the fact that he …
Empire By Mary O'Donnell : Tales From Ireland's Difficult Childhood., Eamon Maher
Empire By Mary O'Donnell : Tales From Ireland's Difficult Childhood., Eamon Maher
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“Take And Eat”: Links Between The Eucharist And Human Flesh In Some Twentieth-Century Irish Texts, Eamon Maher
“Take And Eat”: Links Between The Eucharist And Human Flesh In Some Twentieth-Century Irish Texts, Eamon Maher
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Given the strong influence of Catholicism on the Irish psyche and culture, it is not altogether surprising that it should feature strongly in the work of the country’s writers and artists. This essay will concentrate on the extent to which the Eucharist, a central tenet of Catholic faith, is linked to a certain perception of the body as seen in the work of three well-known Irish fiction writers: Aidan Mathews, Frank McCourt, and John McGahern. Part of the process revolves around reverence for the Eucharist, which, in order to be properly received, demands a purity of mind and body that …
Searching For The Transcendent In The Work Of Francis Stuart, Eamon Maher
Searching For The Transcendent In The Work Of Francis Stuart, Eamon Maher
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Combating The Forces Of Evil : Georges Bernanos' Vision Of The Priestly Function, Eamon Maher
Combating The Forces Of Evil : Georges Bernanos' Vision Of The Priestly Function, Eamon Maher
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Finding Meaning In A Web Of Confusion, Eamon Maher
Faith And Unbelief : Brian Moore's Priestly Depictions, Eamon Maher
Faith And Unbelief : Brian Moore's Priestly Depictions, Eamon Maher
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Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland : Religious Practice In Late Modernity Review, Eamon Maher
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland : Religious Practice In Late Modernity Review, Eamon Maher
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Catholic Prophets Who Dare To Advocate Change, Eamon Maher
Catholic Prophets Who Dare To Advocate Change, Eamon Maher
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Struggles With The Fairer Sex : George Moore's Fr. Oliver Gogarty In 'The Lake', Eamon Maher
Struggles With The Fairer Sex : George Moore's Fr. Oliver Gogarty In 'The Lake', Eamon Maher
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Some Priestly Depictions In The Work Of John Broderick, Eamon Maher
Some Priestly Depictions In The Work Of John Broderick, Eamon Maher
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Rebel Priests, Prophetic Voices, Eamon Maher
Healing The Pain Of The Past : Ireland's Legacy Of Shame, Eamon Maher
Healing The Pain Of The Past : Ireland's Legacy Of Shame, Eamon Maher
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Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
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Techno-Apocalypse: Technology, Religion, And Ideology In Bryan Singer’S H+, Edward Brennan
Techno-Apocalypse: Technology, Religion, And Ideology In Bryan Singer’S H+, Edward Brennan
Books/Book chapters
This essay critically analyses the digital series H+. In the near future, adults who can afford them, have replaced tablets and cell phones with nanotechnology implants. The H+ implant acts as a medical diagnostic and can overlay the user's senses with a computer interface. The apocalypse comes in the form of a computer virus which infects the H+ network and instantly kills one third of humanity. The series represents the anxiety and religiosity that surrounds the possible social consequences of digital technology. It also explores the tensions and intersections between technology and faith. This essay makes the case, however, that …
Eamon Maher On Jean Sulivan, Eamon Maher
Sanctity In The Midst Of Mediocrity : Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest, Eamon Maher
Sanctity In The Midst Of Mediocrity : Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest, Eamon Maher
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The English novelist and convert to Catholicism, Graham Greene (1904-1991), saw the priest as being core to his literary portrayal of Catholicism. The Power and the Glory (1940), published four years after Bernanos' Diary of a Country Priest, is set in a Latin American country, most probably Mexico, which Greene visited in 1938.
Why Such An Interest In Priests?, Eamon Maher
Why Such An Interest In Priests?, Eamon Maher
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Before dealing with any more representations of the priest in modern literature, I thought it might be useful to share some personal experiences which give a context to the origin and inspiration of this series.
Faith In Our Fathers: Can You Believe In Fictional Priests?, Eamon Maher
Faith In Our Fathers: Can You Believe In Fictional Priests?, Eamon Maher
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I was struck recently by an article that appeared in the online section ofthe Irish Times (November 14th. 2015). Written by a priest called Martin Boland, the piece was prompted by the publication of a novel by John Boyne, A History of Loneliness, which has as its main protagonist Fr Odran Yates, who is forced to live in an Ireland where the priest is more likely to be viewed as a paedophile or pariah than as a respected member of society. Clearly a novelist as disaffected as Boyne admits to being with the Catholic Church, would find it hard to …
Review :Thirty-Three Good Men : Celibacy, Obedience And Identity By John Weafer, Eamon Maher
Review :Thirty-Three Good Men : Celibacy, Obedience And Identity By John Weafer, Eamon Maher
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How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
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THIS review-article sets about assessing the significance of a new collection of essays edited by Tom Inglis, Are the Irish Different?1 Tom Inglis is the foremost commentator on the factors that led to the Catholic Church in Ireland securing a 'special position' during the ninetenth and twentieth centuries.2 The Church's 'moral monopoly' has effectively been ceroded by a number of recent developments; the increased secularisation that accompanied greater prosperity, the tendency among a better educated laity to find their own answers to whatever moral dilemmas assail them, and, of course, the clerical abuse scandals. But even in the 1980s, and …
Dealing With Human Weakness : Shusaku Endo's 'Silence', Eamon Maher
Dealing With Human Weakness : Shusaku Endo's 'Silence', Eamon Maher
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Following on my recent presentation of the Catholic priest in some work by William Trevor, I have decided to follow up with a few articles for Spirituality dealing with what I consider to be some of the more insightful priestly portrayals that I have come across in world literature. For the first example, one must travel a long distance to find an author who has been dubbed the Japanese Graham Greene, Shusaku Endo (1923-1976). The novel we will be concentrating on is the writer's 1966 masterpiece, Silence.
Jean Sulivan And The Mystical Moment, Eamon Maher
Jean Sulivan And The Mystical Moment, Eamon Maher
Books/Chapters
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Catholic Sensibility In The Early Fiction Of Edna O'Brien, Eamon Maher
Catholic Sensibility In The Early Fiction Of Edna O'Brien, Eamon Maher
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