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The Cursillo Movement In America
Nabhan-Warren
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Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC7; HRCS; HRCV; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or ""short course in Christianity,"" founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasising how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favour of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as ... Read more
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or ""short course in Christianity,"" founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasising how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favour of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469607160
SKU
V9781469607160
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99-42
About Nabhan-Warren
Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Fellow in Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, USA and author of The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing and Mexican American Activism.
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