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The Encyclical Letter "Laudato Sì. On Care For Our Common Home", issued by Pope Francis in May 2015, contains some legal and economic aspects that go beyond a purely religious relevance, touching upon the political, social, and ethical spheres. The present contribution aims to identify these aspects of the Encyclical Letter, providing a brief reasoned analysis of its most interesting and relevant features, namely the emergence and the human origin of the ecological crisis, the critique of the dominant technocratic paradigm, the weakness of the institutional and legal international response, and the major paths of dialogue proposed by the Encyclical Letter to overcome "the spiral of self-destruction" which humanity is currently confronting. This contribution then focuses on integral ecology as the proposed solution to tackle the present ecological crisis and the call for an ecological conversion. On the basis of the analysis, a final section highlights some tipping points which are worthy of further comment, and contextualises Pope Francis' views in the light of the most relevant scientific literature on these topics.

The aim of this study is to identify what were the strategies that the Sauli of Genoa – one of the several merchant-banking families who arrived in Rome between late fifteenth and early sixteenth century – implemented to gain visibility, prestige and bona fama to the court of the Pope, to serve as lenders of the Pope and the Church, to profitably expand their investment horizons, to extend their political, economic and social influence, to assert their "citizenship" in the so-called "international republic of money and credit". ; L'obiettivo di questo studio è quello di individuare quali furono le strategie che i Sauli di Genova – una delle numerose famiglie di mercanti-banchieri che giunsero a Roma tra la fine del Quattrocento e gli inizi del Cinquecento – misero in atto per ottenere visibilità, prestigio e bona fama alla corte del papa, per proporsi come finanziatori del pontefice e della Chiesa, per allargare con profitto i propri orizzonti d'investimento, per estendere la propria influenza politica, economica e sociale, per affermare la propria "cittadinanza" all'interno della cosiddetta "repubblica internazionale del denaro e del credito".

Jika pada masa Orde Baru, dinamika politik dalam produksi dan konsumsi budaya pop terjebak dalam pertentangan antara kubu yang menerima dan kubu yang melawan status quo yang berpusat pada ideologi resmi yang 'diakui' rezim pemerintahan yakni kombinasi Kejawen, sekularisme, militerisme, bapakisme dan Pembangunanisme serta kepribumian, maka pada masa pasca-Orde Baru atau Reformasi perseteruan politik identitas berkelindan di antara: (a) semangat kedaerahan dan kewenangan nasional, (b) sinkretisme Jawa dan meningkatnya kesalehan baru Islam, (c) patriarki dan gerakan perempuan, (d) selera budaya tinggi dan rendah, dan (e) kesenjangan dan pemberdayaan teknologi. Tulisan ini menelaah artikel-artikel menarik mengenai perkembangan budaya pop di Indonesia pasca Orde Baru yang dirangkum dan dieditori oleh Ariel Heryanto dalam bukunya berjudul "Budaya Populer di Indonesia, Mencairnya Identitas Pasca-Orde Baru". Tidak hanya menelaah melalui pembingkaian ulang fenomena dan kajian budaya populer di Indonesia pasca Orde Baru agar lebih kontekstual, di sini saya juga berusaha menganalisis dan mengritisi setiap artikel agar membuka horizon lebih luas dalam melihat fenomena yang ada dan menjadi referensi bagi periset selanjutnya.

In 1938, when anti-Jewish Racial Laws were passed in Italy, Pope Pius XI and Mussolini went through a long confrontation on the racial problem: for the Duce of Fascism, anything related to racial policies fell within the competence of the Italian government and had nothing to do with religion, hence the Vatican had no authority to intervene; conversely, for the Pope, racism was a dangerous heresy and, as such, had to be condemned by the Catholic Church. This confrontation was harsh and would continue until the death of Pius XI in February 1939. Here, De Cesaris argues that Pius XI had two major concerns, one political, the other theological. The first had to do with Mussolini's violation (volnus) of the 1929 Lateran Accords, which guaranteed the Church frill autonomy in matters concerning family relations and marriage. The second concern was that severing the Hebraic roots of Catholicism risked the possibility of transforming the universal faith into a Rome-based national religion dominated by Fascism, or even opening the door to the German-inspired Aryan Jesus concept. Adapted from the source document.

This essay discusses the music style of turbo-folk as the vanishing mediator between two kinds of nationalism in Serbia: anti-Yugoslav nationalism and pan-Balkan regionalist nationalism. Using Slavoj Žižek's account of the concept of the vanishing mediator, I suggest that the nationalism of turbo-folk created the ground for its benevolent successor of "apolitical" pop. Far from being merely a phase in the longer trajectory of the evolution of music, turbo-folk is the condition that made possible the apolitical transnational contemporary pop folk. The nationalism of turbo-folk was a necessary mediator, and its very nationalist "excess" established the "normal" popular music today. As the "new" Serbia attempts to purge the nationalist and criminal elements of the nineties, turbo-folk "vanishes" and is positioned into the nationalist pathology of Serbia in the nineties. I argue that this shift is nowhere more apparent than in the most recognizable and popular performer of turbo-folk, Svetlana Ražnatović Ceca, whose musical popularity has been rivaled only by her political notoriety. Yet Ceca's popularity has grown throughout the region, presenting an exemplary case study of turbo-folk's representation of nationalism.

This paper highlights the relationship between economic science and Christian moral in order to analyze the idea of socioeconomic development promoted by the Catholic Social Teaching (CST). In the first period leading up to the Second Vatican Council (1891-1962), from Pope Leo XIII to Pope John XXIII, the idea of development was connected both to technical and industrial progress, and to the universal values of justice, charity, and truth, which national communities were asked to follow. During the Conciliar period (1962-1979), the concept of development assumes a social and economic dimension, and so it becomes one of the main pillars of Catholic Social Teaching, which introduces the earliest definition of integral human development. Ultimately, in the post-Conciliar phase (1979-2009) including Benedict XVI's pontificate, the idea of integral human development reaches its maturity by incorporating the complexity of real-world economic interactions. Finally, this paper shows how the ethics bolstered by the Catholic Social Teaching is characterized by two distinct but complementary lines of thought: moral rules for both political action, and for socioeconomic issues.

Der Aufsatz skizziert die Geschichte und die Veränderungen eines der bedeutendsten Porträts der Zeitgeschichte: des Mao-Porträts auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens (Tiananmen-Platz) in Peking. Er spannt den Bogen von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart und untersucht dabei die unterschiedlichen Funktionen und Gebrauchsweisen des Bildes als Herrschaftssymbol, als Ikone der studentischen Protestbewegungen des Westens und der Pop Art um 1968, als kollektivem Protestobjekt im Frühjahr 1989, als Motiv der chinesischen Gegenwartskunst sowie als Bestandteil des Alltagskults. Ein besonderer Akzent wird dabei auf die immanenten Wirkungspotenziale des Bildes und den Ort seiner Präsentation gelegt. In allgemeinerer Perspektive versteht sich der Aufsatz als Plädoyer für eine Visual History von Herrscherbildern der Zeitgeschichte. ; The article presents an outline of the history and changes of one of the most significant portraits of contemporary history: the Mao portrait in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It spans the divide from the beginnings in 1949 to the present day and analyses the varying functions and usages of the portrait as a symbol of political rule, as an icon both of Western student protest movements and of pop art, as an object of collective protest in spring 1989, as a leitmotif of contemporary Chinese art, and as an element of everyday cult. Special emphasis is placed on the immanent impact of the picture and its geo-graphic location. In a broader perspective, the article pleads for a visual history of portraits of political rulers in contemporary history.

As a cultural period the 1960s is produced through overlapping forms of social memory in which private and public recollections overlap. In both sound and imagery, pop music, particularly that of the Beatles, is a principal medium of memory for the period. For the period from 1965, the progressive aspects of pop music, particularly in sonic and lyrical complexity, expressed a retrospective, pastoral strain that was itself a form of memory of other periods and places, of childhood and country life. The Beatles double-A-sided single Strawberry Fields forever/Penny Lane, released in February 1967, epitomizes these complexities in a suburban version of pastoral, recalling the Liverpool childhoods of songwriters John Lennon and Paul McCartney. An analysis of the production and reception of the record, including lyrical genesis and musical development, publicity imagery, reviews in both the popular music papers and national news press, and the impact of the record in Liverpool and London, identifies the importance of intense, immediate moments in cultural geography, and their connection to longer developments in a theatre of memory that plays comedy and history as well as tragedy.

Trying to puzzle out the Communist leadership's reaction to the massive demonstrations then under way during the spring of 1989, some Chinese wits turned to "Go With Your Feelings," a well-known song recorded by the Taiwan pop singer Su Rui. This not only indicated the critical role of one often unpredictable octogenarian, it also revealed the pervasiveness of popular culture from "peripheral China" on the mainland core: an allusion to a pop song from Taiwan could be used (and understood) to sum up an extremely volatile situation. As the economies of the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan move toward increased integration, with Hong Kong and Taiwan supplying the dynamism and the mainland the market, a comparable trend is emerging in the cultural realm: popular culture from Hong Kong and Taiwan is claiming a substantial share of the market and loyalties of mainland consumers. Furthermore, it is redefining the essence of what it means to be a "modern" Chinese at the end of the 20th century, and popularizing a new language for expressing individual sentiments.

Martial law in the Philippines was "lifted" on January 17. Some prisoners were released, other rituals performed But there was no dancing in the streets, and any private rejoicing must have been dampened when President and Prime Minister Ferdinand Marcos signed an order retaining the absolute powers vested in him under his 1973 constitution and 1976 amendments, both submitted to mock referenda. The writ of habeas corpus remains suspended under the catchall "crimes against security" and labor strikes are still banned under another catchall category, "vital industries." The army will not be returning to the barracks.The ceremonial lifting was timed for greatest effect, anticipating Ronald Reagan's inauguration on January 20 and Pope John Paul lis visit to the island in February an ecstatic event for the 40 million Filipino Catholics who make up 86 per cent of the population. The pope was hardly deceived, and, in any case, he certainly does not give his benediction to government repression. The Reagan administration has issued no official statements on the Philippines, but the new secretary of state has made provocative generalizations about how matters of human rights will be met in U.S. foreign policy.

The concern is with the inadequacy of conceptual definitions currently used to identify ethnic pop's, such as use of a surname linguistically related to nat'lity or cultural origin & self-identification by nat'lity or cultural category. Use of Spanish language, Spanish "heritage," & Spanish surname all pose problems. Nativity cross-tabulated with another identifying category & Spanish surname combined with Spanish language category provide some comparable data. The least comparable statistics are those generated by the self-identification category. How adequate & meaningful data can be drawn from the pop's actually recorded by the 1970 census, in order to successfully portray & analyze the Mexican Amer pop, remains a problem. Estimates of how many Mexican Amer's were left out of the 1970 census vary from 3 to 50%. How can underenumeration & ambiguity of identification be signif'ly reduced? Under ideal conditions, a combined objective/subjective criterion could be used. At present, however, it is unlikely that a trouble-free indicator of this nature can be devised. The conceptual definition problem must be solved in order to obtain satisfactory analysis of pop data concerning Mexican Amer's. 1 Table. M. Maxfield.

Nations of Asia, predominantly made up of villages with Ru life more the norm than city life, have been changing into lands of cities. The uniqueness of this Ur growth in Asia is the universality of its nature & accelerated pace, caused primarily by the explosive increase of pop & its shifts into cities. As a result, the immediate consequence of pop concentration in Asian big cities in particular, without an adequate base of industr & Ur economies, is the inevitable deterioration of human environment, which affects the lifestyles of fam's & individuals in cities & Ru villages as well. In other words, the patterns of life that provided for the orderly handling of many matters have to be compromised or shattered altogether. It must be recognized, however, that the Ur'ization process in Asian cities is playing a dynamic role, demonstrating a new spirit in the development of the Ur community as well as in the process of modernization of a nation itself. Asian leaders are now convinced that planned Ur growth, including the improvement of human environment, is a necessary condition for both a balanced econ growth & a new quality of life. Modified HA.