Lluis Oviedo
Biographic Data
| ID | 341535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lluis Oviedo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lluis |
| FAMILY NAME | Oviedo |
| SIGNATURE | OVIEDO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifical University Antonianum |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8189-3311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Developments and Progress Dealing with the Faith-and-Reason Question
For those convinced that theology is about reconciling faith and reason or offering a reasonable account of Christian beliefs and ways of living, the task has become a huge challenge in recent times. This is because reason appears now, both as too demanding in its scientific form and too bewildered in many postmodern and critical expressions. Nevertheless, a deeper perspective can discern interesting developments that open new windows of opportun…
Theology Trying to Make Sense of Natural Disasters
Natural disasters present a significant challenge to engaged theology, particularly following the decline of traditional explanations that relied on the model of divine punishment. The ongoing occurrence of such catastrophes has become a scandal and is frequently used as a critique of divine providence and goodness. In response, theology has moved beyond earlier models to develop more nuanced answers, drawing on alternative frameworks that offer …
The Therapeutic Dimension of Penance Revisited
In contemporary scholarship, pilgrimage is increasingly analysed as a practice associated with personal transformation, spiritual reflection, and psychological well-being. Among the most popular contemporary pilgrimage routes, the Camino de Santiago attracts hundreds of thousands of participants each year, many of whom describe their journey in explicitly therapeutic terms. This article examines the Camino experience through the theological categ…
What have Teenagers to Do with Theology? Exploring Gen Z Theological Views
Like everyone, adolescents have ideas and perceptions of life, its meaning and its potential relationship with God. This set of ideas can be described by the broad term ‘theology’, which is normally used to refer to a professional and expert approach to the divine. It is meant rather as a way to place ourselves within a transcendent framework. Understanding adolescents’ theological ideas or mindsets involves more than assessing their basic belief…
Can Theology Save the Academy? Exploring the Role of Theology in the Crisis of the Humanities —and the University Itself
A growing chorus of informed voices is lamenting the dire state of universities around the world, with many worrying negative symptoms. The question arises to what extent this perceived crisis could be linked to the progressive secularisation of academia in recent times, and to what extent we can identify its ‘malaise’ with the absence of religious inspiration and support. This thesis needs further analysis and could be justified after some analo…
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges
The anthropogenic nature of global environmental change demands that it is viewed not only as a scientific, technological, and economic issue, but as a philosophical, religious, and ethical one. In this article, we intend to explore Biology-Based Mimetic Ethics (BBME) as a subdiscipline of ethics that seeks to learn, adapt, implement, and evaluate models of response observed in living organisms to help social agents make pro-environmental decisio…
Teaching religion in secondary schools
Religious education in secondary schools is a common practice in many European countries. However, there are many voices discussing its usefulness and its role in a deeply secularised. There is not much direct knowledge about such teaching, as its main actors – the teachers – and their experiences are usually ignored in discussions about this educational dimension. Our team carried out qualitative research using semi-structured interviews with a …
Is the Rosary Still Relevant? Exploring its Impact on Mental Health and Well-Being
Religion and Growth in Resilience
Stereotypes frequently associate religion with rigid beliefs, pathological behaviors, or a moral code that, according to critics, engenders guilt, limits personal freedom (Nietzsche), and alienates individuals from authentic lived experience (Marx and Freud). Historically, religion has often been reduced and explained through various perspectives across different disciplines, often leading to psychological, neurological, evolutionary, and socio-f…
Public Theology as Practicing Theology from Below
Christian beliefs and values have played an important role in the formulation of modern human rights. However, this influence does not hide the delays and some difficulties that Christian churches have experienced in this area. A cultural evolutionary framework is proposed to make sense of this ambiguity. In this sense, Christian anthropology is presented as both an evolving body of ideas and a wisdom based on empirical experience. Such a model m…
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students
Many questions arise regarding the compatibility between scientific and religious education. While some voices have pointed to issues that stem from a traditional model in which science becomes a factor or religious crisis and doubt, other views reveal surprising forms of collaboration and complementarity between both dimensions in the educational curriculum. To better understand how those directly involved – the students – perceive that possible…
Evolutionary Explanations of Pain and Suffering
Evolutionary studies have provided several explanations about how pain and suffering can be fitted into that framework, which tries to make sense of every biological and human feature in terms of evolution, survival, and fitness. These explanations point usually to how such apparently negative aspects become useful and contribute to an evolution that after all has delivered good outcomes. Such an approach might eventually render the theodicy ques…
Theology’s Concern for Wellbeing and Human Flourishing
This article proposes a new perspective for theology calling for fresh studies on religion and coping, resilience, wellbeing and flourishing. These studies have grown far from theological areas and could be seen as quite strange to that tradition, its methods, and views. However, theology can learn a lot from these new studies when trying to update its message of salvation, endowing it with a more explicit content and can offer interesting points…
Religion, Ecology and Human Flourishing
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
How a Humbler Science Becomes a Better Science
Giving humility a key role in scientific practice and communication would improve its objective social function-that is, the production of knowledge about our world and its application to the improvement of the human condition-and its public acceptance. This article reviews the limits of science arising from systemic, epistemic, methodological, and individual limitations and links them to the phenomena in scientific practice that they originate f…
Original Sin
The doctrine of original sin serves as a major challenge to apologetic theological reflection. The challenge is more demanding in times of the widespread scientific worldview, which renders biblical accounts on human evil less credible and questions the rationalization efforts produced by ancient and medieval theology. Recent developments in scientific anthropology offer a chance to better approach human negativity. So far, theologians have tried…
Fundamental Theology at the Crossroads
Fundamental Theology (FT) has undergone a slow evolution, as many other theological disciplines, since its inception in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. The lapsed time invites us to reflect about the current situation in this field and to what extent that theological section is pursuing its main objectives, especially for its teaching at different levels. After examining several issues that could have influenced that development, som…
Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees
(1) Background: The war in Ukraine has triggered a huge humanitarian crisis: millions of refugees have escaped from their homes looking for shelter beyond Ukraine's borders. This emergency offers a unique opportunity to investigate and to document those characteristics of the human condition that emerge in exceptional circumstances provoked by war. Based on considerations derived from recent studies on resilience, the research at the base of this…
Caring for Elderly People with Severe Conditions
Western societies are experiencing a demographic shift towards an increased elderly population that is often affected by limiting conditions. This growth is not always balanced by a greater concern and assistance from younger cohorts, which could perceive that demand as a heavy burden, especially under conditions where children often move to work far away from their families. The present research tries to understand this challenging situation by …
Religious coping in adolescents
Adolescence is frequently seen as a troubled age. In many Western societies this is also a time of sharp religious decline. The question arises as to what extent religious faith and practice could help teenagers cope with their distress, especially when religion fades away in secularized environments and stops being a common coping resource. A study was conducted in South-East Spain ( N = 531) to assess coping styles—religious and secular—and how…
Anthropology, Christian and Scientific – Concurrence or Convergence
Anthropology, Christian and Scientific - Concurrence or Convergence
Progreso o estancamiento en el entre teología y ciencia
Varias voces cualificadas se han quejado en los últimos años acerca de la percepción de estancamiento en el desarrollo de la ciencia y la teología, ya que no se ha registrado ningún progreso, y los mismos argumentos se repiten. En contra de esta opinión, surgen múltiples razones, reclamando un mayor compromiso por parte de ambos lados en este esfuerzo interdisciplinario: la ampliación de horizontes, la persistencia de problemas no resueltos recla…
Relating Compassion, Spirituality, and Scandal before Unjust Suffering
Recent studies in the field of cognitive science of religion have proposed a connection between religious beliefs, theory of mind, and prosocial behaviour. Theory of mind appears to be related to empathy and compassion, and both to a special sensitivity towards unjust suffering, which could trigger a religious crisis, as has often happened and is revealed in the "theodicy question". To test such relationships, adolescents were surveyed by an expl…
Visions of a Martian future
Rise of Pilgrims on the Camino to Santiago
There is a renewed interest amongst scholars in the practice of pilgrimage. Over the past two decades, pilgrim numbers have risen significantly, whilst forms of "implicit" or "alternative" spirituality have gained visibility and now coexist with organised religions, sometimes sharing the same ritualistic space. There is probably no better place to look at the coexistence of old and new forms of ritual expression than in the Camino to Santiago. To…
Atheists on the Santiago Way
In the past 30 years, the camino to Santiago de Compostela has been recreated as an eclectic pilgrimage, open to both religious and atheist travelers. Following previous work on motivational orientations and religion, we conducted a study examining atheist versus religious pilgrims' motivations to walk the Santiago way. We assessed pilgrims (N = 360) at various parts of the northern Spanish camino using a questionnaire that measured motivations t…
Religious Cognition as a Dual-Process
Several authors in the field of the cognitive science of religion have resorted to 'dual-process' models in their own developments. These models distinguish between non-conscious (fast, intuitive, and automatic) and conscious (slow, reflective and controlled) forms of religious reasoning. Most of the published studies focus only on the first of those two processes when dealing with religion. The present pages offer a summary of the current state …
Visions of a Martian future
How a Humbler Science Becomes a Better Science
Giving humility a key role in scientific practice and communication would improve its objective social function-that is, the production of knowledge about our world and its application to the improvement of the human condition-and its public acceptance. This article reviews the limits of science arising from systemic, epistemic, methodological, and individual limitations and links them to the phenomena in scientific practice that they originate f…
Caring for Elderly People with Severe Conditions
Western societies are experiencing a demographic shift towards an increased elderly population that is often affected by limiting conditions. This growth is not always balanced by a greater concern and assistance from younger cohorts, which could perceive that demand as a heavy burden, especially under conditions where children often move to work far away from their families. The present research tries to understand this challenging situation by …
Religious-And Other Beliefs
The scientific study of beliefs, including religious beliefs, is thriving. The focus of this research is broad, but notably includes attempts at classifying different kinds of beliefs and their contrasting traits. Religious beliefs appear as more or less specific depending on chosen approaches and criteria. This paper intends to bring the discussion to a different level applying two strategies that yield a similar result. The first tries to refra…
Christianity
As a basic description, Christianity is the religious faith grounded on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Beyond this point, the scholarly understanding of that concept has been the object of much discussion in modern times, particularly in the realm of the social sciences. In an attempt to put some order into the social, religious, historical, and ideological reality that corresponds to the term “Christianity,” a synthetic account may…
Testing the Effects of Organizational Culture on a Catholic Religious Order
It can be stated that very committed religious people do not develop a monolithic culture, even when they belong to the same spiritual tradition, although there is little research on the pluralism present in a religious segment which is often deemed too uniform and closed to study. The present article aims to explore the internal culture of a homogeneous group of Catholic friars and the presence therein of sub-cultures. Further, the study will te…
Is Religious Behavior “Internally Guided” by Religious Feelings and Needs?
Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions
Islam is the religion of over one billion people and is practiced in virtually every country on earth. The articulation of an Islamic environmental ethic in contemporary terms is all the more urgent because Western-style conservation efforts do not fit all cultural and philosophical traditions. This volume outlines the Islamic view of the cosmic order and reviews the ways an Islamic world view can be interpreted, reassessed, and applied to such e…
Response to Donald Wiebe, “Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems,” and Luther Martin, “The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response” Trying to Explain Religion (Again)
Religion is a multifaceted phenomenon calling for a multidisciplinary approach. Research programs ignoring such level of complexity could incur in forms of reductionism, becoming unable to account for many aspects of religious mind and behavior. The thesis exposed in the articles of Wiebe and Martin awake that suspicion: the first one because of the many ways different religions cope with illness and contagion; the second, as a consequence of the…
Changing Paradigm in the Cognitive Study of Religion
Religious Cognition as a Dual-Process
Several authors in the field of the cognitive science of religion have resorted to 'dual-process' models in their own developments. These models distinguish between non-conscious (fast, intuitive, and automatic) and conscious (slow, reflective and controlled) forms of religious reasoning. Most of the published studies focus only on the first of those two processes when dealing with religion. The present pages offer a summary of the current state …
Rise of Pilgrims on the Camino to Santiago
There is a renewed interest amongst scholars in the practice of pilgrimage. Over the past two decades, pilgrim numbers have risen significantly, whilst forms of "implicit" or "alternative" spirituality have gained visibility and now coexist with organised religions, sometimes sharing the same ritualistic space. There is probably no better place to look at the coexistence of old and new forms of ritual expression than in the Camino to Santiago. To…
Christianity
Christianity is a world religion with strong implications in the development of ethnicity and—in modern times—of national identities. Christian faith is per se universalistic in its orientation, but nevertheless it has supported many ethnic movements and has been the source of many national identities. Therefore, an internal tension between both tendencies—universal and particular—can be observed, with its roots in doctrine and tradition. Christi…
Cultural Influences on the Brain Science and Theology on Human Specificity
This paper addresses the timely issue of human specificity in a multidisciplinary perspective. It starts with a brief description of the relationships between science and theology during the last few decades, and notes how the situation has been changing since the beginning of the 21st century. We then suggest how recent scientific developments open up fresh and concrete approaches to human specificity in science and theology, especially when the…
Christianity
As a basic description, Christianity is the religious faith grounded on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Beyond this point, the scholarly understanding of that concept has been the object of much discussion in modern times, particularly in the realm of the social sciences. Trying to put some order into the social, religious, historical, and ideological reality that corresponds to the term “Christianity,” a synthetic account may be off…
Religious attitudes and prosocial behavior
Studying Religion and Trying Theological Applications
John Shook’s paper Are People Born to be Believers? raises many questions, for the scientific study of religion and for philosophy and theology. For reasons of convenience this response distinguishes in the target article between three quite different issues and deals with them separately: first issue concerns the supposed innateness of religious beliefs, or some precursor of them; second, the possible theological application that such thesis cou…
Meaning and Religion
“Meaning” and “religion” appear as deeply interlinked concepts in modern thought. Theology has often discovered religious faith as a “source of meaning” against a background of “meaninglessness”, as the XX century existentialist philosophies would remark. Beyond such an apologetic stance, some philosophies of religion have tried to better describe such a link: hermeneutics, phenomenology and even systems theory, may be accounted as main attempts …
The Evolution of Religion, Religiosity and Theology
Atheists on the Santiago Way
In the past 30 years, the camino to Santiago de Compostela has been recreated as an eclectic pilgrimage, open to both religious and atheist travelers. Following previous work on motivational orientations and religion, we conducted a study examining atheist versus religious pilgrims' motivations to walk the Santiago way. We assessed pilgrims (N = 360) at various parts of the northern Spanish camino using a questionnaire that measured motivations t…
Visions of a Martian future
Abuse of Minors in the Catholic Church
Religious-And Other Beliefs
The scientific study of beliefs, including religious beliefs, is thriving. The focus of this research is broad, but notably includes attempts at classifying different kinds of beliefs and their contrasting traits. Religious beliefs appear as more or less specific depending on chosen approaches and criteria. This paper intends to bring the discussion to a different level applying two strategies that yield a similar result. The first tries to refra…
Religious coping in adolescents
Adolescence is frequently seen as a troubled age. In many Western societies this is also a time of sharp religious decline. The question arises as to what extent religious faith and practice could help teenagers cope with their distress, especially when religion fades away in secularized environments and stops being a common coping resource. A study was conducted in South-East Spain ( N = 531) to assess coping styles—religious and secular—and how…
Anthropology, Christian and Scientific – Concurrence or Convergence
Anthropology, Christian and Scientific - Concurrence or Convergence
Progreso o estancamiento en el entre teología y ciencia
Varias voces cualificadas se han quejado en los últimos años acerca de la percepción de estancamiento en el desarrollo de la ciencia y la teología, ya que no se ha registrado ningún progreso, y los mismos argumentos se repiten. En contra de esta opinión, surgen múltiples razones, reclamando un mayor compromiso por parte de ambos lados en este esfuerzo interdisciplinario: la ampliación de horizontes, la persistencia de problemas no resueltos recla…
Relating Compassion, Spirituality, and Scandal before Unjust Suffering
Recent studies in the field of cognitive science of religion have proposed a connection between religious beliefs, theory of mind, and prosocial behaviour. Theory of mind appears to be related to empathy and compassion, and both to a special sensitivity towards unjust suffering, which could trigger a religious crisis, as has often happened and is revealed in the "theodicy question". To test such relationships, adolescents were surveyed by an expl…
Original Sin
The doctrine of original sin serves as a major challenge to apologetic theological reflection. The challenge is more demanding in times of the widespread scientific worldview, which renders biblical accounts on human evil less credible and questions the rationalization efforts produced by ancient and medieval theology. Recent developments in scientific anthropology offer a chance to better approach human negativity. So far, theologians have tried…
Fundamental Theology at the Crossroads
Fundamental Theology (FT) has undergone a slow evolution, as many other theological disciplines, since its inception in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. The lapsed time invites us to reflect about the current situation in this field and to what extent that theological section is pursuing its main objectives, especially for its teaching at different levels. After examining several issues that could have influenced that development, som…
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