Florencia Garramuño

Maria Clara Bingemer

Silviano Santiago

Ana Kiffer

Nádia Battella Gotlib

Yudith Rosenbaum

Roberto Corrêa dos Santos

Lúcia Peixoto Cherem

Vilma Arêas

Veronica Stigger

Evando Nascimento

Antoneli Matos Belli Sinder

Beatriz Damasceno

Elizama Almeida

João Camillo Penna

Lucia Helena

Magdalena Edwards

Marcela Lanius

Margarida de Souza Neves

Mais do que homenagear Clarice no ano de seu centenário, o objetivo da edição é apresentar uma série de leituras capazes de oferecer novas interpretações e perspectivas sobre a obra da autora que legou verdadeiros clássicos da literatura brasileira, como A paixão segundo G.H., A hora da estrela e Perto do coração selvagem. uma produção permeada de visões filosóficas, arrebatamento e múltiplos sentidos. Para isso, reuniram-se aqui grandes especialistas em diferentes aspectos da escrita clariciana, que reafirmam e atualizam a força dessa autora aberta a novas descobertas de leitoras e leitores de hoje, e do futuro. Como afirma o organizador Júlio Diniz: "Não se pretendia falar de Clarice como um monumento literário, aprisionado a um passado glorioso, nem tratar a sua obra como um arquivo já constituído. Queríamos celebrar a voz viva, presente e potente desta nordestina-ucraniana-judia-carioca-passageira-do-mundo, que marca em definitivo a literatura e a cultura em língua portuguesa no século XX."

Quanto ao futuro, Clarice

Peter J. Casarella

In Tutti Fratelli, Pope Francis has called again for a “culture of encounter,” But how should his theology, pastoral practice, and social message be understood and applied in the Church of the Americas, a single but complex reality that extends from South to North? This volume offers analyses from experts looking back to the Argentine pontiff’s first fateful encuentros in the Americas as a help for understanding the present reality of the Church in the Western Hemisphere. The group includes theologians, historians, and political scientists, and the unique contribution of the volume lies in the panoramic perspective offered by the book as a whole. The initial essays set the stage for the volume as a whole, offering rich insight into Argentine and Latin American history, the world from which the Pope came and to which he returned in 2015, as well as surveying the impact of the Latin American “theology of the people” on the Pope’s visit to the U.S. Additional essays address theological, historical, and pastoral engagements that cut across several of the visits. The final group of essays is dedicated to the visits themselves and is arranged in the order that they occurred. Pope Francis and the Search for God in América is offered to all the members of the Church in América, South and North, old and young, with the hope that it will spur even more thought, reflection, prayer, and service.

The Significance of His Early Visits to the Americas

Pope Francis and the Search for God in America

Jimmy Sudário Cabral

Diante de dois temas apaixonantes: mística e literatura, o livro Finitude e Mistério, que reúne intelectuais de inegável envergadura, procura pensar a presença da religião e da mística em porções significativas da literatura moderna. Nomes canônicos como Dostoiévski, Kafka, Camus, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Adélia Prado, Hilda Hilst são mencionados neste conjunto de textos que busca traduzir o espanto e a originalidade de uma inteligência literária que soube tematizar com sensibilidade religiosa a finitude e o mistério que nos acompanham a todos.

Finitude e mistério

Giulia Paola Di Nicola

Il pensiero e la vita di Simone Weil rappresentano ancora oggi una sfida e una provocazione che non cessano di interrogare la nostra cultura. La figura di questa donna straordinaria e «controcorrente», destinata a gettare luce oltre il XX secolo, ci...

Azione e contemplazione

Simone Weil

The present book reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. It constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a Europe where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a sinister manner, toward World War II, this woman of fragile health but indomitable spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist system, the brutality of Nazism, and the paradox of bourgeois thought. At the same time, her spiritual journey was one of zeal and sorrow--that of a true mystic--but her radical intransigence and passion for freedom kept her from actually approaching the institutional church. Curious and insatiable, she wanted to experience, in the flesh, the suffering of society's least fortunate and the truths of other religions. The reader will need to develop a discerning empathy for Simone Weil's sensibility, beyond her particular passion and zeal, in order to appreciate her in depth. But undeniable are this truly singular woman's authenticity, her capacity to suffer, her identification with the other, her inner passion, her almost magical perception of the depths of the human spirit. And that is why her story merits being told as one of the great witnesses of our age.

Mystic of Passion and Compassion

During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live today, the so-called postmodernity, late modernity, or hypermodernity. In this context, one of the most profound impacts is most certainly the one on religion. During the twentieth century, religion proved not to be banished from the human horizon as the masters of suspicion intended. Known as the godless century, the twentieth century saw also a resuscitation of the search for the sense of life and spirituality. With the crisis of modern reason, humankind turned toward consumerism and provisional and "light" practices. The last century represents not only the height of the postmodernization process but also the rescue of the transcendent and absolute, even if it is an absolute without face and identity. It is in this scenario that religious experiences, apparently exiled by modern rationality, begin to occur and multiply again. Mystical experiences will be, then, the basis for highlighting recurrent characteristics with universal import. But they will show a different configuration than before. One will be able to find them not in so-called sacred spaces but in very secular ones; not so much within institutions but at the borders, or even outside them; not configured by a specific tradition but in an interface that makes more than one tradition meet and dialogue.

Passion for God in Times of Unbelief

The Mystery and the World

In The Mystery and the World, Maria Clara Bingemer explores how the place of religion in society has dramatically shifted since the Enlightenment. The modern era is characterised by a major change in humanity's fundamental desires that means that reason has taken the place of faith. Human beings, in their ongoing search for a scientific understanding of the world, have drifted away from seeking any essence of transcendence in their lives. Bingemer examines this transition and how, especially inthe postmodern era, it has led to technology and superficial happiness becoming all-important as opposed to the more sacred sense of contentment that governed us for centuries prior to the Enlightenment. In her discussion, however, Bingemer demonstrates that we as humans have not lost our innate desire to believe in a higher power and that, even in our world of instant satisfaction, we still need to fill the void left by religion. Through well-researched analysis of the modern era and discussion of some of the mystics of more recent times, she reveals to readers how our religious belief, whilst changed, is not dead and is still an important aspect of our existence.

Maria Clara Bingemer

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