Mid-20th-century photographsreveal the visual sensitivity of the Jesuit Juan Mateos,an eminent liturgist and biblical scholar who resided in Iraq during that period. These monochromatic images capture churches, monasteries, villages, urban quarters, and, above all, the joyous moments of Christian life experienced by communities primarily in northern Iraq and the environs of Mosul. That era was characterized by a peaceful coexistence among the diverse faiths of the nation, a social cohesion that gradually eroded from 1968 onwards, ultimately facing total dissolution following the advent of conflicts that culminated in the fury of ISIS. The swing of history illustrates the alternating phases of light and darkness characterizing the Church in Iraq [...] The volume concludes with a gallery of contemporary artworks by four artists: Dahlia Khay Azeez, Bassam Sabri Butruss Nagara, Salam Idwer Yaqoob Al-Loos, and Haitham Yalda Matooka.

Vincenzo Ruggieri, Rocco Roberto Vaiana (ed.)

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Contributi di: Haim Burstin, Carlo Capra, Raffaele De Grada, Franco Della Peruta e Dario Generali

Nell’ottobre del 1989 il Comune di Paderno Dugnano (MI) organizzò un ciclo di conferenze dedicate a illustrare aspetti significativi della storia della Rivoluzione francese e dei suoi riverberi sulla cultura del tempo. L’iniziativa offrì un’occasione apprezzabile per allargare a un pubblico più ampio di quello degli studiosi gli esiti più avanzati del dibattito storiografico e civile sull’argomento. Quelle conferenze sono ora proposte anche come una testimonianza delle posizioni storiografiche di quegli anni e dell’interesse che allora le istituzioni e la società civile avevano per gli studi storici e per i grandi eventi del passato.

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This essay offers a reinterpretation of Buddhist contemplative practice through the lens of semiotics: the theory of signs and meaning. Drawing on early Pāli Buddhist texts and the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, this book argues that meditation is fundamentally a semiotic discipline: a systematic exploration of how perception, cognition, and language construct the world of experience.
Through a comparative dialogue between Buddhism, phenomenology, and Peircean semiotics, the book develops the concept of psychosemiotics: the study of how signs organize consciousness and constitute reality. Meditation emerges here as an experimental inquiry into perception itself—an effort to move beyond habitual sign-structures toward direct awareness of phenomena “as they are”.

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