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Liturgy and Philanthropy Today
2020
The Liturgy is the holy and the sanctifying divine service in which the most merciful love of God for men or the divine Philanthropy is celebrated in the most intense way. The true Liturgy takes place in heaven and in this sense there is only one Liturgy, that of the perfect love of the Holy Trinity in which all creatures are called to participate. Human beings connected through the body to this world can do so through the cultic ritual, which is in essence, a diastole, an exit of God’s love to the world, in order to attract through the systole of his love all creatures to the life of communion. The Eucharistic Liturgy is this universal dynamism that draws the whole cosmos to union with God…
Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society
2018
Nearing a century since its inception, quantum mechanics is as lively as ever. Its signature manifestations, such as superposition, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle, entanglement and nonlocality, were long confronted as weird predictions of an incomplete theory, paradoxes only suitable for philosophical discussions, or mere mathematical artifacts with no counterpart in the physical reality. Nevertheless, decades of progress in the experimental verification and control of quantum systems have routinely proven detractors wrong. While fundamental questions still remain wide open on the foundations and interpretations of quantum mechanics, its modern technological applications have …
The challenge of contemporary society on science education: The case of global warming.
2014
The big problems that contemporary society needs to address (e.g. climate change) challenge our traditional idea of education and require to revise the goals of science education research. Such problems are indeed so complex as to require a wide range of competencies to be engaged in producing and implementing solution strategies. Science education is forced to take into account the many dimensions that characterize contemporary science and to face the task of bringing together the potential of all the different perspectives (Tasquier & Nonni, 2011). An example of this kind of research, concerning environmental problems, will be briefly described and its first encouraging results illustrate…
The War on Terror
2019
9/11 has changed the world in many senses. It introduced not only fear in the contemporary society, but also ignited the counter-reaction to the US in what G. W Bush dubbed as “War on Terror”. This chapter centers on a philosophical discussion that relates the international geopolitics with the sociology of terrorism. Basically, the archetype of 9/11 has woken the interests of many scholars though, to date, it is ideologically inspired. Paradoxically, while much attention was paid on the archetype of 9/11 as a founding event that subordinated other similar events, less understanding of the issue scholars have. This chapter places the war on terror and 9/11 under the critical lens of scrutin…
Antico e (è) contemporaneo. Prefazione
2021
Introduction to the pubblication: the idea of the work was in fact that to reconnect objects, contexts and approaches to archeology e of contemporary art under the given common denominator from the belonging of the respective "types" of cultural assets to the contextualized heritage
Religion and Social Integration ‘Crises’ in North Western Europe: Some Conclusions
2013
My investigation of religion-related social integration crises in four North West European societies in the period 2001–11 began with the English case and the riots in some Northern English cities of 2001. In concluding I shall start again with this case, bringing it together with the Dutch, French and Northern Irish evidence we have now considered, and with my findings across each of the dimensions examined (segregation, media, institutional forms of multiculturalism and secularism, far-right and post-liberal mobilisation and national cultural trauma). Since much attention has been given to factors which shape conflict and influence the construction of prejudice, and especially to the nega…
Las refugiadas políticas colombianas en España: aportes para la disciplina de Trabajo Social de los enfoque de género e intercultural
2018
El propósito del presente artículo es aportar conocimientos para la disciplina de Trabajo Social, específicamente en su praxis con mujeres y en la intervención colectiva con el enfoque de género y el enfoque intercultural. Partiendo de la idea de que todo conocimiento es situado, la presente investigación feminista subraya la importancia de pensar desde la perspectiva de las vidas de los grupos excluidos, en este caso de las refugiadas colombianas exiliadas en España, para visibilizar sus aportaciones a la defensa de los derechos humanos, al desarrollo humano sostenible y a la superación de la vulnerabilidad, a través de procesos de empoderamiento y de constitución de redes de apoyo. Para e…
Crisis, educación y precariedad-afluencia. El rol de la educación en las condiciones de vida de la población española
2016
El objeto de este artículo es estudiar la influencia del nivel educativo (capital cultural) en los procesos de precariedad-afluencia de la población española entre los años posteriores a la crisis de inicio de la década de 1990 y los años más duros de la crisis de 2007. A partir de los datos de las encuestas PHOGUE y ECV del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) se han construido cuatro indicadores para medir la precariedad laboral, de ingresos, de salud y de vivienda y su distribución según distintas variables demográficas. Se pretende contrastar la hipótesis de que más educación significa más protección frente a la precariedad, estudiando diferentes condiciones de las condiciones de vid…
The shopping mall as an emergent public space in Palermo
2017
<p>As Doreen Massey (2005) pointed out, space matters. Does public space still matter today? Since the early seventies, several studies have explored public space as an emerging, and in many ways innovative, universe of actors, spatiality and socio-territorial practices which invaded the public spheres of our cities (Habermas, 1979; Rossi, 2008). However, ‘public space’ may have a wide variety of interpretations which relate to a semantic overlapping between a sensitive material sphere -The Space- and an intangible metaphorical sphere -The Public- (Bianchini, 1990; Crosta, 2000; Hajer and Reijndorp, 2002; Harvey, 2006; Low and Smith, 2006; Rossi, 2008). As Crosta (2000) reveals, a new…
LA TECNICA Y LA CRISIS FILOSOFICA DEL HUMANISMO
2008
Los acontecimientos civilizatorios que emblemáticamente representamos con nombres como Auschwitz o Hiroshima han hecho visible que la comprensión de la realidad como técnicamente abordable obliga a replantear problemas centrales para la filosofía: la omnipresencia de la técnica transforma el modo de vida de los individuos y las sociedades contemporáneas, el vínculo del hombre con la naturaleza y el vinculo social, no menos que los modos de construcción de la subjetividad humana. El presente escrito intenta oponer a la destrucción heideggeriana del sujeto la idea de que, en la presente crisis abierta por las posibilidades inéditas de las tecnologías, es imprescindible una reconstrucción del …