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The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers. The volume engages its readers in an intellectual and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought. The Companion is based on three premises. The first is that Catholic life and thought are centrally theological, although the views of philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, historians, and lay and religious activists are also represented. The second is that Catholic life and thought are diverse, embracing the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, as well as a broad range of institutions and activities. Topics covered include: peacemaking, violence and wars; money, the vow of poverty and socioeconomic life; art by and about Catholics; and men, women and sex. Finally, the volume presupposes that, while Catholic life and thought are irreducibly distinctive, they also overlap with and transform other ways of living and thinking.

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