02912cam a22003137i 4500 160714t20162016oru b 001 0 eng d 9781625641069 1625641060 9781498284967 1498284965 SDU B831.2 .B56 2016 Bingemer, Maria Clara Lucchetti. 217250 The mystery and the world : passion for God in times of unbelief / Maria Clara Bingemer ; foreword by Peter J. Casarella ; translations by Jovelino and Joan Ramos. Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2016 376 p. Premature or late modernity: a question of culture -- Secular culture and the crisis of religion -- Religious or mystical experience: a new moment, a new configuration, new challenges -- Mystical biographies and theological narrative -- Stories and experiences of love -- Conclusion. HKBU library YT2025 M10 "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." -- Postmodernism Religious aspects Christianity. 217251 Mysticism. Spirituality. Casarella, Peter J., writer of foreword. 217252 Ramos, Jovelino, translator. 217253 Ramos, Joan, translator. 217254 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 111629 111629 0 0 lcc 0 B08312 B56 02016 0 CGB 284352 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-09 2 0 B831.2 .B56 2016 1000375866 2025-10-09 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-09 GBE