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The metamorphosis of a human being into wolf appears in European textual tradition, as well as in the so called european «popular cultures». This paper covers different explanations for such transformation. We try to uncover the common structure that underlies both the folk tales and the treatment of the phenomenon in high culture. Galician werewolf is used as touchstone to assess the contribution of these explanations to the understanding of the phenomenon in a particular area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last twenty years the educational policy of the European Union has sought two objectives: on the one hand, to make the citizens aware of the common European identity and on the other hand, to enable them to make Europe the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world. Education is seen as the most effective tool to face the current challenges in Europe in the context of globalization and economic crisis. It is therefore essential to raise the proper orientation to the present European Education crossroads. The hypothesis of this paper is that the education policy raised at European level does not respond with rigor and depth to the current challenges in Europe since it is predominantly subject to a target of economic progress and growth and to a professional training. Neither does it propose a comprehensive education within a code of ethics that achieves to alleviate the profound moral failings of the current crisis, their breeding ground consisting of nihilism and moral relativism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper has the goal to develop a comparative approach between the European definition of social rights and the same definition in the case of the United Nations; taking into account the differences and similarities between the way to work on it by the European Union and the Council of Europe. The research done try to show the dear gap between the legal promotion and protection of civil and political rights and the legal promotion and protection of social rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which deals with the relationship between the juridical statutes of churches and fundamental rights within the European Union, is divided into two parts. The first part describes the protection of fundamental rights within the EU; and the second addresses the three key questions that arose regarding a subject discussed during the European Convention held to draft the so-called European Constitution, the failure of which led to the Treaty of Lisbon: (1) the relationship between church statutes and Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (concerning freedom of thought, conscience and religion); (2) the role of fundamental rights as parameters protecting churches in EU treaties; and (3) the guarantee of the juridical statute of churches under the terms of the Charter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Quantitative Methods for the Economy and the Company" was a class traditionally taught through conventional lectures leading to a feared final exam as the sole form of evaluation. In order to make that methodology more attuned to the European Higher Education Area, we have decided to incorporate a more practical approach to promote student-centred learning as well as a new system of lifelong evaluation. This paper presents the analysis of students' opinion about the new methodology and training materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate that carne about as a consequence of the speech given by Benedict XVI in Regensburg has not only given a new impulse to the relationship of Christianity and Islam, but it has also caused a new internal debate within the countries of Christian origin. In this paper we offer a summary of the main opinions formulated until now, which are useful to re-think and re-shape the current dialogue between faith and reason, modernity and Christianity, Europe and its Christian roots, non-Christian cultures and the Catholic Church, a debate in which many well-known intellectuals of diverse creeds have spoken. In this article we underline the precedents there are for the present Pope's stance, the first responses to his speech, and the subsequent interventions that have turned this discussion into a «Globalized discourse». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current situation of European society is still deeply marked by the aftermath of the "cultural revolution" of the 60s. This paper discusses examines, first, a number of social features in which this influence is discernible: secularization, birth rate decline, decay of the family, relativism, etc. The second section presents the contemporary cultural crisis as the ultimate stage of an evolution that opened up in the 17th century, when a new secular-rational ethics (etsi Deus non daretur) -designed to supersede traditional Christian ethics- was proposed by Grotius and other scholars. The third section analyzes the essential contribution Christianity could make to the (still hypothetical) cultural-moral revival of Europe (via an ethics veluti si Deus daretur), focusing particularly on the dialogues Joseph Ratzinger held with Jürgen Habermas and Marcello Pera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]