Au Medef, le regard des religions sur un monde en transformation

Dans une rencontre de rentrée qui se veut une projection vers l’avenir, le Medef avait voulu associer le regard des religions. « Comment peuvent-elles nous aider à mieux vivre dans cette période d’incertitude ? », résume l’organisation patronale qui a consacré une table ronde entière, lundi 28 août, à la question religieuse. « Mais quel … Read more

Spiritual directors: the new guide of spirituality without religions

Susan Pannier-Cass, spiritual director and ordained minister, at her home in Chicago on Dec. 11, 2020. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times) Last spring, after getting divorced, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to. In particular, she wanted to talk about spirituality and the bigger picture of her life. Although Ingram, a 33-year-old government contractor in … Read more

Literary religions (II). Literature and cinema after/during secularization: 1989

The Italian literary and cinematographic works of the last twenty or thirty years, very frequently, cannot be interpreted by resorting only to the vocabulary of materialism. In fact, they are populated by rebirths and initiations, faiths, spiritualities and mystics from the most diverse backgrounds to which they end up being assigned leading roles. Often, that … Read more

End of life: what religions say about suicide (assisted or not)

A patient with an incurable form of cancer holds the hand of her companion, in Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle), June 1, 2018. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP “There is only one really serious philosophical problem: it is suicide. To judge that life is or is not worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy. claimed Albert … Read more

Renato Carpi presents ALGEBAR for a permanent center on the dialogue between religions and spirituality

Genoa – Wednesday 30 November 2022, at 5.30 pm, at the Church of Saints Cosma and Damianomagazine presentation ALGEBAR for a permanent center on the dialogue between religions and spirituality edited by Renato Carpi, Il Canneto Publisher. Carpi talks with Luciano Rosasco. Free admission; for info tel. at San Paolo Bookshop on 010 2469292. Genoa … Read more

Lectoure Days “Spirituality, religions, secularism and living together”: conferences

Editions Lazare et Capucine and the 122 association are organizing the Lectoure 2022 days on November 19 and 20. On the program: a round table, conferences, a book fair, an artists’ exhibition, a play and a choral singing concert. the fair is open to artists, authors and publishers who have published in the field of … Read more

Religions: six books for an original approach

“The Exception and the Rule. The practices of entering and leaving convents, from the end of the Middle Ages to the XIXe century”, directed by Albrecht Burkardt and Alexandra Roger, PUR, 346 p., 30 € Under the direction of Albrecht Burkardt and Alexandra Roger, some twenty historians and specialists in religion offer an overview that … Read more

The forum that put all the religions on the planet to speak and laid the foundations of the yoga that you practice

On May 1, 1893, the World Columbian Exposition in Chicagoa world fair that, over the next six months (until October 30) would bring together all kinds of events in the US capital, predominantly those dealing with new inventions, prototypes and products that were intended to be launched on the market, as well as attractions, shows … Read more

Treasures to share: A look at the lights and shadows of religions

Why is a part of the new generations tends to stay away from religion organized and sometimes seek spiritual experiences through other paths? This is the question answered on this occasion by the priest Raúl Humberto Lugo Rodríguezrector of the church of La Candelaria and responsible for the dimension of Faith and Social Commitment of … Read more

For Emmanuel Macron, religions have a “duty of resistance”

“I come in front of you worried”consented Emmanuel Macron at the opening of the annual gathering of the community of Sant’Egidio, in Rome, on Sunday 23 October. Faced with the words “belligerent”to ” resentment “ peoples and “leaves of war” in Europe, the President of the Republic spoke at length on the role of religions … Read more