Religió

març 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-transformative-promise-of-pope-francis-five-years-on The Transformative Promise of Pope Francis, Five Years On. How the leader of the Catholic Church became a hero of the secular world

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/will-pope-francis-cause-a-schism-in-the-catholic-church?

la nota 351 sobre si els divorciats es podrien tornar a casar: Catholics who find themselves in such situations, the footnote explains, might be helped along by the very sacraments that their transgressions would typically bar them from receiving. Communion “is not a prize for the perfect,” Francis writes, “but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”

As prefect, he served Pope John Paul II as a kind of theologian-in-chief, and was known, on occasion, to gently correct even the Pontiff. Ratzinger

És el primer Papa a dir-se com Sant francesc. he has produced “Happiness in This Life” (Random House), a collection of peppy one-liners, almost self-helpish in tone, culled from his encyclicals and sermons. “There is one word that I want to say to you: joy! ” Francis declares. “Never be sad, men and women: A Christian should never be sad! Never let yourself be discouraged!”

Earlier in his papacy, while fielding questions from the Vatican press corps on a plane, he was asked about the Church’s stance on homosexuality. He replied, “Who am I to judge?” It sounded more like a plea to move past the issue than like an actual invocation of humility.

Algun autor creu que F podria estar al caie de l’heretgia o de causar un cisma. però de fet, més que corregir oficialment la teologia, el que ha fet és canviar el to.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-the-greek-oracles els oracles grecs, Delfos

https://www.ara.cat/estils_i_gent/Lastorament-dun-musulma-pel-cristianisme_0_2024197691.html Kermani desgrana en breus capítols una quarantena d’obres d’art cristianes, en especial pintures, des de la seva visió personal. Quadres de Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Albertinelli, Dürer, Lochner, Reni, Bellini, Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, el Bosco, Memling, Zurbarán, De la Tour, Perugino… li serveixen per parlar-nos d’amor, desig, vocació, lament, resurrecció, mort, Déu, llum, oració, víctima o èxode, d’una manera íntima i erudita en què la tradició musulmana s’acosta amb devoció al cristianisme a través de l’art. | Aquesta és la perspectiva de Kermani, sense por de dir el que pensa, reconeixent sempre aquesta atracció que el porta a resar a les esglésies sense per això acostar-se massa a la creu ni participar de l’eucaristia. Si hi ha alguna cosa que admiro del cristianisme, o més ben dit dels cristians, la fe dels quals més que haver-me convençut m’ha vençut, m’ha privat de tots els meus arguments, si em quedés amb un sol aspecte, amb una sola característica com a exemple, com a fil conductor també per a mi, no és precisament l’art que tinc en tan alta estimació, no la civilització amb la seva música i la seva arquitectura, no aquest o aquell altre ritu, per molt ric que sigui. És l’amor específicament cristià… En altres religions també s’estima, s’exhorta a la misericòrdia, a la tolerància, a la caritat. Però l’amor que percebo en molts cristians i amb molta més freqüència en aquells que han donat la seva ànima a Jesús, monjos i monges, excedeix tot límit al que podria arribar una persona també sense Déu: el seu amor no fa distincions”.

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/10/25/18010314/meditation-headspace-insight-timer-apps meditació, història i apps headspace iinsight timer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/ A Amèrica creix la demanda per exorcismes, [la gent atribueix els seus mals a la possesió pel dimoni]

2019

Contrary to Kabat-Zinn’s loftier claims to universalism, mindfulness is in fact ‘metaphysically loaded’: it relies on its practitioners signing up to positions they might not readily accept. In particular, mindfulness is grounded in the Buddhist doctrine of anattā, or the ‘no-self’. Anattā is a metaphysical denial of the self, defending the idea that there is nothing like a soul, spirit or any ongoing individual basis for identity. This view denies that each of us is an underlying subject of our own experience. By contrast, Western metaphysics typically holds that – in addition to the existence of any thoughts, emotions and physical sensations – there is some entity to whom all these experiences are happening, and that it makes sense to refer to this entity as ‘I’ or ‘me’. However, according to Buddhist philosophy, there is no ‘self’ or ‘me’ to which such phenomena belong. []After a certain point, mindfulness doesn’t allow you to take responsibility for and analyse your feelings.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-so-many-americans-are-turning-to-buddhism la gent recorre al budisme per alleujar l’ansietat

He advises probing the origin of the feelings to find out if they come, for example, from desires for power or greed, fear of what others may think, a desire to do good or to be selfless.

Ignatius offers three imaginative exercises if no clear choice emerges:

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300226553/why-i-am-not-buddhist Argumenta contra la idea que el budisme “modern” no estaria subjecte a les crítiques de les religions sinó que vindria a ser una ciència de la ment.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-wasting-of-the-evangelical-mind Per què els cristians evangèlics presten tanta poca atenció al racional i són tan susceptibles de creure teories conspiratives. Evangelicals pushed analysis away from the visible present to the invisible future,” Noll writes. “Under these influences, evangelicals almost totally replaced respect for creation with a contemplation of redemption.”

Crucially, fundamentalists came to embrace a number of theological innovations that were previously not at all central to Christian orthodoxy, including premillennial dispensationalism––a focus on biblical prophecies as a road map to different epochs in history and, in particular, the coming of the end times––and a simplistic, literal approach to the Bible. The “plain reading” method of interpretation ignored the cultural and historical context in which biblical authors were writing, and encouraged believers to apply a misguided, quasi-scientific approach to Bible verses, treating them as “pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that needed only to be sorted and then fit together,” as Noll writes. Biblical inerrancy, which Noll points out had never before occupied such a central place in any Christian movement, became foundational. Fundamentalists also believed that they needed to separate themselves from an increasingly secular society. All of this had a dampening effect on Christian thinking about the world: there was little need to pay attention to history, global affairs, and science, because the present epoch would soon pass, ushering in Jesus’s return; saving souls was all that mattered.

in place of a belief that a life devoted to God must begin with a sudden, life-changing religious experience, evangelicals should understand that it can unfold in a more gradual process.

in order for evangelicals to rescue the life of the mind in their midst, they need to acknowledge that the church is missing a vital aspect of worshipping God: understanding the world He made.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-59513177 monges, imams i rabis fent vídeos per tiktok

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/12/how-christmas-has-evolved-over-centuries les tradicions de Nadal

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60409113 bateigs que es consideren incorrectes perquè el capellà va dir “we” en lloc de “I”. REalment l’església creu que la vida d’aquests nens seran diferent per això?

https://www.guernicamag.com/carolyn-chen-buddhism-has-found-a-new-institutional-home-in-the-west-the-corporation/

Chen warns that corporate spirituality is turning work into a religion that replaces community-based spirituality and engagement. In an industry where 70+ hour workweeks are normal, the boundary between private life and work has been erased. Chen describes how tech professionals are dropping out of political and civic participation because their commitment to their companies leaves no time for such engagements outside the workplace; instead, they are encouraged to seek meaning and connection at work. “Instead of building friendships, trust, and goodwill within their communities,” writes Chen, “[workers] develop the social capital of their companies.”

For the overwhelming majority of Asian Buddhists, Buddhism is a devotional practice. Bowing to images of deities, burning incense, worshiping at an altar — those are all fundamental elements of Buddhist practice. There is this acknowledgement of worshiping higher beings. Meditation was not at all a mainstream lay practice in Buddhism. It only became popular in the early twentieth century, when Buddhist reformers such as the Burmese monk Mahasi Sayadaw, founder of modern Vipassana meditation, promoted it as a lay Buddhist practice. Mindfulness, as it was practiced for most of its history in Asia, was a very elite practice reserved only for advanced monastics. But Jack Kornfield, who is one of a number of influential teachers responsible for making Buddhist meditation go mainstream, understood that devotional Buddhism would be an obstacle for white Americans. He emphasized meditation because he understood that devotional Buddhism would be too associated with “religious” practice.

the other question here, to which I never got a satisfactory answer, is: Why meditation? Why mindfulness? When I looked at additional research, I learned that gardening can produce similar health outcomes to decrease your stress. Or just sleeping more! But nobody promotes those practices in the same way or to the same scale because there’s nothing to gain there. Several meditation teachers I interviewed told me that meditation is really hard and difficult to sustain, but here are all these companies touting it and claiming it’s making people more productive and improving their mental health. Yet there are all these other things that could be equally beneficial that people can do if they just get more time off work. But employers are unwilling to entertain that option.

And this happens not just in Silicon Valley. Almost all Fortune 500 companies are now organizing themselves to function as religious organizations. They have an origin story, a mission, ethics, and a particular set of practices, and many of them have a charismatic leader, which are all basic components of organized religion. I would say that this is strategic. They have learned that managing meaning is a central labor practice to compete for highly skilled workers in a knowledge economy.

VIOLENCIA RELIGIOSA

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62206585 mestra hindu assassinada al Kashmir

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62678403 dones que porten hijab discriminads a Egipte

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62762815 líder religiós hindú arrestat per violar menors

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64047152 Un pastor duia joies per valor de 1M$

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64235873 missionaris cristians coreans pretenen convertir Nepal

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64714491 guru religiós d’una secta índia, acusat de violació i assassinat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65204037 cristians atacats per jueus a Jerusalem

https://theconversation.com/church-without-god-how-secular-congregations-fill-a-need-for-some-nonreligious-americans-215749?utm_source=pocket_mylist Comunitats seculars.

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2024

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