In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of Catholics—28,000, by the archdiocese’s count—would be asked to leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover up. Wounds from this profound betrayal of trust had not healed.In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occupied several churches in opposition to the closure...

WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARDWhat does it mean to be a community of difference?St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshaped the neighborhood, transforming streets into borderlines and the parish into a waystation. Today, the church sustains a community of Black, Caribbean, Latin Americ...

Working Alternatives explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.The essays in this book—from scholars of business, religious ethics, and history—offer readers pra...

An introduction to the most important issues facing an increasingly globalized world with this thoroughly updated and revised sixth edition.Global Issues is an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to the major environmental and development issues confronting the modern world. Spanning disciplines such as political science, economics, sociology, ecology, international relations, and development studies, this popular textbook enables students to develop a b...

This book is about all the adventures that I have experienced in my journey to places where most people do not get to go. This is not just about all the stars and celebrities and their wine cellars but is about people, monuments, things, and places along the roads of this great country of ours. Wine cellars are a thing of beauty and a place of refuge. They have become more and more popular over the years. Some of the nation wine enthusiasts, including stars and celebrities, have had them b...

Wie kaum ein anderes Buch feiert dieses Meisterwerk der literarischen Naturbeobachtung die unerschöpfliche Vitalität der Natur. In den 1960 er Jahren war der Wanderfalke im Aussterben begriffen. In diesem Wissen beobachtete Baker über viele Jahre diese faszinierenden Vögel. Mit naturwissenschaftlicher Genauigkeit beschreibt er in seinem als Tagebuch angelegten Bericht das Leben eines Wanderfalkenpaares in Ostengland. Tag für Tag folgt er den beiden, beschreibt die Gewohnheiten und Ängste d...

This unique commentary allows the interpretation of Isaiah 1-39 to be guided by the final form of the book. It focuses on the theological aspect of the book of Isaiah, giving special attention to the role of literary context. Christopher Seitz explores structural and organizational concerns as clues to the editorial intention of the final form of the material, which he argues is both intelligible and an intended result of the efforts of those who gave shape to the present form of the book....

Die Entdeckung eines Autors: J. G. Farrell zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache 1919: Major Brendan Archer, nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs aus der englischen Armee entlassen, reist an die irische Ostküste, um seine Verlobte zu heiraten. Das Wiedersehen mit der Tochter des Besitzers des Hotels Majestic verläuft allerdings gänzlich anders als erhofft, zumal die Verlobte bald darauf verstirbt. In der Zwischenzeit aber hat sich der Major bereits auf die verbliebene Schar von Katzen, skurri...