Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Study of religion [Ciência da religião]
Methodism and the urban setting: a relation with impact The chapter explores the critical but not totally negative understanding of the urban setting by John Wesley and investigates how the city shaped Methodism and how Methodism tried... more
Title: God, the human being and the world in the pictorial language of the heart religion: codes and challenges Abstract The religion of the heart, also called in popular terms cordial religion, is a vital expression of Brazilian... more
TItle: CATHOLIC – PROTESTANT – PENTECOSTAL – NEW-PENTECOSTAL RELIGIOUS IMAGINARY? IMPLICATIONS OF THE ORIGIN AND MULTIPLES REEDITIONS OF THE BOOK OF THE HEART ON BRAZILIAN SOIL Abstract Every church´s concept of salvation, the... more
Title: Gender studies and theological method: corporeity [body] and androcentrism as permanent subjects of the Brazilian Wesleyan Quadrilateral Abstract The present paper discusses the potential of the Brazilian Wesleyan... more
Title: Divine parentality and pastoral practice: human beings before God, the pastoral ministry as female and male, and the Church considering contemporary family Abstract Abstract: The description of the “fi rst” person of the... more
THE USE OF THE TERMS “SECT” AND “SECTARIAN” IN THE Aurélio DICTIONARY: AN INVESTIGATION OF CONFESSIONAL TENDENCY Abstract This paper investigates the confessional perspective (in the Christian sense) of the Aurélio Dictionary, first... more
Title: John Wesley’s medical guide Primitive Physic[k] from 1747: science, charlatanism or social medicine? Abstract In 1747, John Wesley, spiritus rector of the Methodist movement, published the first edition of his medical guide... more
Title: The origins of the emblem book The human heart by Johannes Evangelista Gossner: continuity and new readings of the religio cordis between the 16th and 19th century Abstract This paper investigates the textual and pictorial... more
The translation of the Catholic book The human heart by J. E. Gossner (1812) by the Presbyterian A. Jensen (1914): the promotion of a Catholic imaginary or its Protestant review? Abstract This paper interprets The heart of man,... more
The article compares William Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street with texts by his contemporary John Wesley, spiritus rector of the Methodist movement. Although Hogarth had portrayed the Methodist religious movement in some of his prints... more
Models of spirituality and the Christian Brazilian context: an analyzes and projection based on the kierkegaardian distinction between aesthetics, ethics and religion Los modelos de la espiritualidad cristiana y el contexto de... more
"Since 1888—with an interruption be tween 1898 and 1910—the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the description of the work of Christ in the second Article of Religion has not been “to reconcile his Father to us,” as has consistently been... more
The heart as hagiographic attribute of Saint Benedict of the Rosary: hypothesis on its origin and its underpinned understanding of Christian life. Resumo Neste artigo, investiga-se uma variação incomum dos atributos hagiográficos... more
Em 2007, faz 90 anos que faleceu Walter Rauschenbusch. Seus livros foram lidos no Brasil nas décadas de 20 e 30, como nas de 50 e 60, com reflexos ainda nas décadas de 70 e 80. 1 Rubem Alves chamou o movimento ao qual Rauschenbusch... more
Quando surgiu a intenção de escrever sobre o Credo Social (em seguida CS) 2 , tínhamos primeiro em mente o centenário da sua primeira versão "estadunidense" em 2008. Na elaboração do texto deparamo-nos com a crescente emancipação das... more