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Author: William Bruce Johnson Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802094937 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 541
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Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it.
Author: William Bruce Johnson Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802094937 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 541
Book Description
Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it.
Author: William Bruce Johnson Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442691824 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 541
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Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere ‘business’ unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring for the first time that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as ‘sacreligious.’ Using legal briefs, affidavits, and other court records, as well as letters, memoranda, and other archival materials to elucidate what was at issue in the case, William Bruce Johnson also analyzes the social, cultural, and religious elements that form the background of this complex and hard-fought controversy, focusing particularly on the fundamental role played by the Catholic Church in the history of film censorship. Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it. The Court’s decision was not only a milestone in the law of church-state relations, but it paved the way for a succession of later decisions which gradually established a firm legal basis for freedom of expression in the arts.
Author: Steven K. Green Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190908165 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 480
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In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is not just a legal construct; it is embedded in the culture. Church-state separation was a popular cultural ideal, chiefly for Protestants and secularists, long before the Supreme Court adopted it as a constitutional principle. While the Court's church-state decisions have impacted public attitudes--particularly those controversial holdings regarding prayer and Bible reading in public schools--the idea of church-state separation has remained relatively popular; recent studies indicate that approximately two-thirds of Americans support the concept, even though they disagree over how to apply it. In the follow up to his 2010 book The Second Disestablishment, Steven K. Green sets out to do examine the development of modern separationism from a legal and cultural perspective. The Third Disestablishment examines the dominant religious-cultural conflicts of the 1930s-1950s between Protestants and Catholics, but it also shows how other trends and controversies during mid-century impacted both judicial and popular attitudes toward church-state separation: the Jehovah's Witnesses' cases of the late-30s and early-40's, Cold War anti-communism, the religious revival and the rise of civil religion, the advent of ecumenism, and the presidential campaign of 1960. The book then examines how events of the 1960s-the school prayer decisions, the reforms of Vatican II, and the enactment of comprehensive federal education legislation providing assistance to religious schools-produced a rupture in the Protestant consensus over church-state separation, causing both evangelicals and religious progressives to rethink their commitment to that principle. Green concludes by examining a series of church-state cases in the late-60s and early-70s where the justices applied notions of church-state separation at the same time they were reevaluating that concept.
Author: Richard Swiderski Publisher: ISBN: 9781522746591 Category : Languages : en Pages : 252
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The story of a Jewish merchant in Paris who procured a host, the Blessed Sacrament of Christianity, from an indigent Christian woman and witnessed the miracle of its bleeding and indestructibility when he abused was doctrinally and economically opportune for religious and secular authorities. The burning of the Jew after he refused to convert to Christianity added to the force of the narrative. This book explores the origins of the story, presented as a historic event occurring at Eastertime, 1290, and its transformations over time and through different media. Its institutionalization split between two rival churches and bodies of administrators helped form a template for the dissemination of the miracle story and its reproduction in other cities. The unique image of "the boiled god," which reflected a reliquary projection of the miracle, energized existing Eucharistic miracle legends and helped convey the dogmas of transubstantiation and the real presence of Christ in the host. It also served as a capsule for Christian anti-Semitism conveying in dramatic form, and in dramas, the allegedly perfidious character of Jews and their efforts to commoditize Christian sacramentals. This combination of key factors gave the miracle story and its imagery great staying power. While Protestant, Catholic and Jewish critics exposed its inconsistencies and unreasoning harshness, and its churches and clergy were erased by revolution, it extended into the twentieth century of comic strips and renewed anti-Semitism, reflecting and foreshadowing the treatment of questioners of religio-economic arrangements.
Author: Michael E. Goodich Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351917293 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
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Beginning in the late twelfth century, scholastic theologians such as William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas and Engelbert of Admont attempted to provide a rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles, bolstered by the Aristotelian theory of natural law. Similarly in this period a tension appeared to exist in the recording of miracles, between the desire to exalt the Faith and the need to guarantee believability in the face of opposition from heretics, Jews and other sceptics. As miracles became an increasingly standard part of evidence leading to canonization, the canon lawyers, notaries and theologians charged with determining the authenticity of miracles were eventually issued with a list of questions to which witnesses to the event were asked to respond, a virtual template against which any miracle could be measured. Michael Goodich explores this changing perception of the miracle in medieval Western society. He employs a wealth of primary sources, including canonization dossiers and contemporary hagiographical Vitae and miracle collections, philosophical/theological treatises, sermons, and canon law and ancillary sources dealing with the procedure of canonization. He compares and contrasts 'popular' and learned understanding of the miraculous and explores the relationship between reason and revelation in the medieval understanding of miracles. The desire to provide a more rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles is linked to the rise of heresy and other forms of disbelief, and finally the application of the rules of evidence in the examination of miracles in the central Middle Ages is scrutinized. This absorbing book will appeal to scholars working in the fields of medieval history, religious and ecclesiastical history, canon law, and all those with an interest in hagiography.
Author: Laura Wittern-Keller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 256
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Examines the Supreme Court's unanimous 1952 decision in favor of a film exhibitor who had been denied a license to show the controversial Italian film, Il Miracolo. The ruling was a watershed event in the history of film censorship, ushering in a new era of mature--and sophisticated--American filmmaking.
Author: Reginald O. Crosley Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780761828938 Category : Alternative medicine Languages : en Pages : 290
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From the twentieth century to the present, the scientific medical establishment is taking consideration of alternative healing practices. Having witnessed positive results, medical researchers are facing urgent inquiries. According to author Reginald O. Crosley, M.D., the exotic scientific principles revealed in quantum mechanics, relativity theories, strings theory, and chaos theory, directly correspond to alternative medicines and miraculous healings.
Author: Joan Carroll Cruz Publisher: TAN Books ISBN: 089555948X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 523
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The story of 36 major Eucharistic Miracles from Lanciano, Italy in 800 to Stich, Bavaria in 1970. Details the official investigations. Tells where some are still venerated today. Covers Hosts that have bled, turned to flesh, levitated, etc.; plus, of Saints who have lived on the Eucharist alone. Reinforces the Church's doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament like no other book!
Author: William Bruce Johnson
Author: William Bruce Johnson
Author: William Bruce Johnson
Author: Steven K. Green
Author: Richard Swiderski
Author: Michael E. Goodich
Author: Sir Henry Spelman
Author: Laura Wittern-Keller
Author: Reginald O. Crosley
Author: Joan Carroll Cruz
Author: Bert Ghezzi