Peter Bernard Hooper
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In the Closet of the Vatican
- Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
- De: Frederic Martel
- Narrado por: John Banks
- Duración: 22 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
In the Closet of the Vatican is a fascinating description and evaluation of financial, sexual and political misconduct throughout the Catholic Church at a time when new revelations are being uncovered each and every week. This audiobook explores the underlying causes and includes interviews with numerous Cardinals and other individuals, some of whom cannot be named. Martel reveals financial scandals in the Vatican bank; political collusion with unsavoury regimes, including Castro’s Cuba and Pinochet’s Chile; sexual abuse and hypocrisy over homosexuality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- De L.Lovelace en 10-30-20
- In the Closet of the Vatican
- Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
- De: Frederic Martel
- Narrado por: John Banks
As a Catholic myself the book has real force.
Revisado: 02-25-20
The writing style of the book is a mix of academic work, methodic and involved, and yet it steps back from being only thing by a large amount of story telling and reports of a large number of interviews If one was asked is this book primarily a psychological reflection or a sociological one, then sociology gets the tick in its box. A number of times Martel is able to point to how the story of the individual is linked to the problem and issue a whole society experiences and is required to face as a result of the telling of that individual's story. Finally there is one idea Martel offers which is noteworthy. He points to the presence of both gay people and non-gays in the Vatican but does not then argue there are two lobbies, one gay and the other straight. He observes while there are gay individuals, group formation for them, the capacity to be a political block is not there because that sexual orientation or interest can't be socially acknowledged. There is the ability for a political movement that attacks gays to be formed, and it is there in the Vatican, and it is populated by many who are homophile. There is permission for this group formation and Martel gives time to explain how this faction operates. This book is socking for some, as a Catholic the news that some in the Vatican are gay is no surprise, however the goings on, the things said and done, that can be indeed unsettling. A book which can be recommended to those who are willing to be open to what it offers.
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The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- De: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrado por: Jonathan Haidt
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,896
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?
- De K. Cunningham en 09-21-12
- The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- De: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrado por: Jonathan Haidt
Perhaps being an older person helps value this boo
Revisado: 02-15-20
Since approaching one's retirement gives one the profile of being older rather than younger, then this is how I position myself. I have seen myself as being on the liberal/left most of my life and there is this drift to the centre in how I respond and think. For this reason I argue Jonathan Haidt's book is useful, it provides a guide. The language used, the structure of the text, the way it moves from beginning to end is one of accessibility, it is not difficult to read or a struggle to unpack. Haidt clearly has an academic background but it does not block a reader from grasping what the text offers. As things stand in 2020 there are examples of polarised communities when it comes to ideas and social practice. The sexual identity worlds seem to be at war, and for some science has become, again, a provider of knowledge that unsettles and threatens. Talk to a transsexual person that biology is sex and you will be positioned as a transphobe; tell a homosexual or gay man that the sexual identity arguments that used notions of sexual orientation that were so helpful in giving him and others access to legal changes and increased personal and group freedoms, and the term sexual orientation can be applied to the paedophile and again you may be shown the door. The value of Jonathan Haidt's book is he clearly values science, particularity what biological sciences offer, and links this to moral argument and human psychology. This book makes for a good read.
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