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  • 'We’re Not an Ideology But Persons With Human Dignity'
    Vivencio Ballano
    This book sociologically argues that the nonbinary sexuality and gender of the LGBTQI are not recent inventions of gay rights movements and activism that constitute an ideology. Homosexuality and gender diversity have long been existing in society since Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve. The gender identities of the LGBTQI community cannot be fully understood using the deductive ...
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    14,24 €

  • God’s Call
    Vivencio Ballano
    This book details my spiritual conversion and experience of God’s call in my life as a Catholic Christian and sociologist. It narrates how my accidental reading of the Bible had led to my spiritual journey with Christ. Thinking that God called me to become a Catholic priest, I abandoned my dream to become a pilot and engineer and entered the Catholic seminary--only to discover ...
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    12,80 €

  • 'We are God’s Children Too!'
    Vivencio Ballano
    This book affirms the human dignity of the members of the LGBTQI as Children of God who should be fully accepted in the Catholic Church. It sociologically analyzes how institutional homophobia or fear of homosexuality and the traditional natural law morality that only allows heterosexuality and gender complementarity of male and female constitute the primary ecclesial and conce...
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    16,73 €

  • Why Can’t Pope Francis and the Catholic Church Fully Accept the LGBTQI?
    Vivencio Ballano
    Pope Francis appears to be fully welcoming the LGBTQI community in the Catholic Church in his media interviews and writings. However, a closer sociological analysis would reveal that he remains conservative in his moral doctrine and resistant to LGBTQI inclusivity with his continued subscription to the Church’s natural law morality. This book argues that unless the Catholic Ch...
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    20,28 €

  • Celibacy, Seminary Formation, and Catholic Clerical Sexual Abuse
    Vivencio O. Ballano
    Applying sociological theories, this book argues that the Catholic Church’s adoption of mandatory clerical celibacy has resulted in various negative consequences, including weak social control against clerical sexual abuse, and so advocates a new model of clerical formation. ...
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    74,71 €

  • In Defense of Married Priesthood
    Vivencio O. Ballano
    Examining the negative impact of celibacy on the Roman Catholic priesthood, this book offers a sociological analysis of the factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy and argues for the acceptance of married priesthood as a legitimate means of living the priestly vocation in response to the challenges of our age. ...
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    77,42 €

  • A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching
    Vivencio O. Ballano
    This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest. It uses the sociotheological approach that​ combines the moral principles of CST and the holistic analysis of modern sociology and also utili...
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    48,32 €

  • Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam
    Vivencio O. Ballano
    This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying sociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the region. Using documentary and ethnographic data, in addition to resistance and ecologi...
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    66,35 €

  • Law, Normative Pluralism, and Post-Disaster Recovery
    Vivencio O. Ballano
    This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that actualize the post-disaster recovery goals of the country’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 has resulted in the inadequate housing and relocation of Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines. Using the sociological and normative pluralist perspectives and the case study met...
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    66,78 €