Catholic Church (catholic + church)

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Kinds of Catholic Church

  • roman catholic church


  • Selected Abstracts


    AUTHORITY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: Theory and Practice

    NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 996 2004
    Philip Egan
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    THE ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: A STUDY IN HISTORY AND ECCLESIOLOGY

    THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2004
    John Whooley
    First page of article [source]


    THE CHALDEAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE POLITICS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN MODERN IRAQ

    THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2004
    Anthony O'Mahony
    First page of article [source]


    SELECTIVE ABORTION IN BRAZIL: THE ANENCEPHALY CASE

    DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS, Issue 2 2007
    DEBORA DINIZ
    ABSTRACT This paper discusses the Brazilian Supreme Court ruling on the case of anencephaly. In Brazil, abortion is a crime against the life of a fetus, and selective abortion of non-viable fetuses is prohibited. Following a paradigmatic case discussed by the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2004, the use of abortion was authorized in the case of a fetus with anencephaly. The objective of this paper is to analyze the ethical arguments of the case, in particular the strategy of avoiding the moral status of the fetus, the cornerstone thesis of the Catholic Church. [source]


    A SANCTUARY IN POST-CONFLICT SPACE: THE BAPTIST CHURCH AS A ,MIDDLE OPTION' IN BANOVINA, CROATIA

    GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2009
    Reinhard Henkel
    ABSTRACT. One of the observable aspects of social change during the transition period in most post-socialist countries is the revival of religion. The resurgence of churches has accompanied national revival and in some countries it is also connected to a growing post-socialist nationalism. This article focuses on the development of different ,,transnational', religious options in an area of ethnic conflict by presenting a case study of the post-war growth of the Baptist Church in the Banovina region in Croatia, close to the Bosnian border. Research results are based on halfstructured interviews with church representatives and members. The research shows that there has been a considerable post-war expansion of the Baptist Church in the Banovina region, and that it is mainly ethnic Serbs and people from mixed marriages who have joined the Church. Many of them have a background as communists. For them, neither the Catholic Church, which is regarded as a Croatian church, nor the Serbian Orthodox Church are viable religious options. Instead, there are three factors that make the ,Baptist option' attractive. First, it is grounded in the historical tradition of the Baptist Church in this region and on memories and myths activated in the war and post-war periods. Second, the Baptist Church has made a middle transnational option available in an ethnically mixed area. As such it attracts those who are searching for a niche of neutrality in an ethnically strongly divided region characterized by conflict. Third, the considerable humanitarian work and help of organizations related to the Baptist Church during and after the war not only added in the eyes of many people in need to its image elements of existential shelter, but also brought the Church out of the shadows and made it more ,visible', thereby improving its former reputation as an obscure sect. [source]


    PUBLIC MEMORY AND POLITICAL POWER IN GUATEMALA'S POSTCONFLICT LANDSCAPE

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2003
    MICHAEL K. STEINBERG
    ABSTRACT. Landscape interpretation, or "reading" the landscape, is one of cultural geography's standard practices. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to reading landscapes transformed by insurgency movements or civil wars. Those landscapes can tell us a great deal about past and present political and social relationships as well as continuing power struggles. Guatemala presents a complicated postwar landscape "text" in which the struggle for power continues by many means and media, including how the war is portrayed on memorials, and in which the Catholic Church and the military/state are the two main competing powers. This essay explores some of the images and the text presented in Guatemala's postconflict landscape through contrasting landmarks and memorials associated with the country's thirty-six-year-long civil war that formally ended in 1996. [source]


    Women's rights in Peru: insights from two organizations

    GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 4 2009
    ROSA ALAYZA MUJICA
    Abstract In this article we explore the appropriation of ideas about women's rights in Lima, Peru through an ethnographic study of two non-governmental organizations. SEA is a local NGO grounded in the Catholic Church's liberation theology movement, which seeks to promote integrated human development, and is linked to the worldwide Catholic Church. DEMUS, the second NGO, with feminist roots, actively fights gender discrimination and belongs to networks of international women's human rights movements and UN organizations. We argue that the struggle for women's rights is part of a broader struggle for recognition and equality for the poor, shaped by changing notions of national identity, citizenship and diversity. Our research revealed clear examples of vernacularization, whereby local context, values and culture played a decisive role in the adoption of women rights ideas. Encounters with other concepts and movements, including social justice, family violence and women's mobilization, intimately shaped the vernacularization of women's rights. Ultimately, the adoption of rights ideas involved changes in women's individual and collective empowerment. [source]


    John Colet, preaching and reform at St. Paul's cathedral, 1505,19,

    HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 194 2003
    Jonathan Arnold
    As a Christian humanist, Colet attempted clerical reform partly by means of preaching. Evidence from Colet's ecclesiastical life as dean of St. Paul's suggests that his success was limited by the inappropriate expression of his idealistic ecclesiology, which demanded perfection. Although Colet's passion for preaching was shared and admired by humanist colleagues, his sermons received negative reactions from his cathedral clergy, the bishop of London and Henry VIII. The intellectual basis for Colet's ecclesiology was a combination of Pauline theology and Dionysian spirituality, which created a vision of Church perfection by means of purification and illumination. However, Colet sought a spiritual and moral revival, not a fundamental change to the structure of the Catholic Church. Colet's humanist success was achieved mainly outside the ecclesiastical world. [source]


    Education of the Laity and Advocacy of Violence in Print during the French Wars of Religion

    HISTORY, Issue 318 2010
    LUC RACAUT
    At the turn of the seventeenth century King Henri IV of France sought to reconcile his Catholic and Protestant subjects by blaming the violent excesses of the French Wars of Religion on religious radicalism. In particular, Catholic preachers and pamphleteers were accused retrospectively of having poured oil on the fire of religious violence through vitriolic sermons and pamphlets. Historians have tended to reproduce this charge while at the same time emphasizing the ,modernity' of Protestantism, particularly in view of religious education. A review of books printed in the sixteenth century enables historians to test empirically the extent to which violence was fuelled by religious polemic. From the beginning of the Reformation the Catholic Church had been torn between educating the laity in correct doctrine on one hand and denouncing heresy on the other. A closer look at the book trade reveals that these concerns were reflected in the kinds of books that were published in the vernacular in the second half of the sixteenth century. While the clergy increasingly saw the merits of educating the laity, it had to compete with the public's taste for polemic that printers were keen to cater for. [source]


    "Official" Doctrine and "Unofficial" Practices: The Negotiation of Catholicism in a Netherlands Community

    JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 4 2001
    Tony Watling
    This article examines the Dutch Catholic Church. It is based on a qualitative ethnographic analysis of a particular Dutch Catholic community. It seeks to demonstrate that despite a decline in the church since the 1960s many Dutch parishioners are becoming active in redefining the church and attempting to revitalize Catholicism, creating democratically organized local communities where laity and local clergy, women and men, work together as equals in negotiating change, but argues that this may involve "unofficial" practices, possibly at odds with "official" church hierarchy controlled doctrine, which may resist acknowledging them and resist change. By examining these issues, the article aims to understand the dialectic and tension between what could be termed "popular" and "orthodox", "private" and "public", beliefs and to examine the constraints or possibilities this may place on the church. In this sense, the article also aims to explore how religion, thought to be vulnerable to recent change encouraging individual independence from social institutions, may negotiate (or reject) new developments. Although challenged, Catholic identity may still be valued and provide individuals with resources for negotiating new developments. However, the success or failure of this may depend on the nature of the struggle for authority and influence between "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism. [source]


    Organizational Revival From Within: Explaining Revivalismand Reform in the Roman Catholic Church

    JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 2 2000
    Roger Finke
    The most enduring theoretical model for explaining the rise and fall of religious movements has been some form of the church-sect theory. Yet this model offers little explanation for the continued vitality of the Roman Catholic Church. We argue that a key to this institutional success is the Church 's ability to retain sect-like revival movements within its boundaries. We demonstrate that religious orders, like Protestant sects, stimulate organizational growth, develop innovations for adapting the church to a new culture or era, and provide institutional support for a high tension faith. Unlike Protestant sects, however, they do so within the institutional church. This source of internal reform and revival helps to explain the long term vitality of the Roman Catholic Church and its ability to operaate effectively as a religiou monopoly. [source]


    Ethical control and cultural change (in cultural dreams begin organizational responsibilities)

    JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2010
    Slawomir Magala
    Ethical control is based on transparent access to the accounts of responsible behaviour on the part of individual and organizational actors. It is usually linked to the idea of a checkpoint: where celibate rules, no sexual interaction can be allowed. However, organizing and managing climates in professional bureaucracies have always led towards the empowerment of the operatives (regional bishops and local parish priests in the case of the Catholic Church). History of the church is repeated by corporate bureaucracies in the wake of the globalized and individualized multimedia communications, ushering in the era of hyper-connectivity and traceability of individual behaviour. From industrial camera records at the parking lot or building entrance to the Google analysis of surfing behaviour, all of us generate public confessions and see more private acts subjected to the public ethical clearings. Universities, like hospitals, airlines and armies before them, had to enter the game of cognitive and institutional conscience game with codes of conduct and other digital tablets with 10 or more commandments. What about the gravest capital and collective sins of our societies translated daily into millions of unethical behaviours? Inequalities and injustices usually circle around gender, race, poverty and nature. Charity begins in heart and mind, but requires cultural change and a humanist coefficient in educational and socializing interactions. Stock options of arts and humanities as the prime suppliers of applied ethical procedures in educational settings should/will go up. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Containing "Contamination": Cardinal Moran and Fin de Siècle Australian National Identity, 1888,1911

    JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 1 2010
    MARK HEARN
    Cardinal Patrick Moran, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney 1884,1911, believed that Australian Catholicism would flourish with the emergence of the new nation through Federation in 1901, provided that Australians turned away from foreign influences, including anarchism and nihilism. Moran also sought to use Australia to "Christianise" the enormous population of China, and believed that Chinese immigration could make a useful contribution to nation building. As the nineteenth century closed, Moran's aims were also complicated by the more insidious threats represented by a challenge to religious faith by fin de siècle ideas , a modernism manifesting as both a general challenge and a specific doctrinal relativism that might erode the Church's authority, and the threat Moran felt was posed to the development of the liberal Australian state and the Catholic Church by radical political alternatives. Concern that a mood of religious apostasy and secularisation might spread to the Catholic community also influenced Moran's support for the fledgling Australian Labor Party, which Moran believed could develop as an instrument to reinforce a moral and inclusive sense of Australian identity for the Catholic working class. Like his pro-Chinese views, Moran's advocacy of "the rights and duties of labour" was defined by an imagined alliance of evangelism and nation building, stimulated by the fear, as he expressed in 1891, of "an unchristianized world." [source]


    The Elusiveness of Protestantism: The Last Expatriations for "Apostasy" from the Church of Sweden (1858) in a European Perspective*

    JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 3 2007
    ERIK SIDENVALL
    By studying the responses to the last expulsion for "apostasy" from the Swedish National Church in 1858, this article examines how an international Protestant identity was constructed in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. It is the argument of this study that a comprehensive identity , including both evangelicals and theological progressives , could be built around the notion of religious liberty. The advocacy of religious freedom became a line of demarcation that separated this group from the Roman Catholic Church, as well as from those Protestants that were firmly attached to an exclusivist position. In order to manufacture this unity, strategies that had been used to fortify the Catholic,Protestant divide were now also used to establish distinctions between different forms of Protestant belief. It is the argument of this article that this unity definitely broke with the theological disputes of the 1860s. [source]


    Defining a Democracy: Reforming the Laws on Women's Rights in Chile, 1990,2002

    LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Issue 3 2005
    Merike H. Blofield Liesl Haas
    ABSTRACT This article evaluates 38 bills seeking to expand women's rights in Chile and finds that the successful ones often originated with the Executive National Women's Ministry (SERNAM), did not threaten existing definitions of gender roles, and did not require economic redistribution. These factors (plus the considerable influence of the Catholic Church) correlate in important ways, and tend to constrain political actors in ways not apparent from an examination of institutional roles or ideological identity alone. In particular, the Chilean left's strategic response to this complex web of interactions has enabled it to gain greater legislative influence on these issues over time. [source]


    GOD's PRISONERS: PENAL CONFINEMENT AND THE CREATION OF PURGATORY

    MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2006
    ANDREW SKOTNICKI
    This essay explores two events that occurred in the thirteenth century: the decree normalizing the prison as the fundamental disciplinary apparatus in the first universal system of law (canon law) and the formal recognition by the Catholic Church of the existence of Purgatory. It will be suggested that this simultaneity was far from coincidental. The penal colony known as Purgatory reflected in nearly exact detail the contours of the earthly prison. Implications for modern theology will then be discussed. [source]


    Gender, Nations and States in a Global Era

    NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 4 2000
    Sylvia Walby
    Nations and national projects are gendered in different ways. Feminist theory has raised important questions about the conceptualisation of ,difference'. This article develops the conceptualisation of the different ways in which nations and national projects are gendered, arguing for a mid-level conceptualisation of gender relations. It argues against, on the one hand, the excessive fragmentation of gender, and on the other, too simple dichotomies of mordless unequal gender relations. This draws on a theorisation of gender relations which connects the different dimensions into specific kinds of gender regimes, either public or domestic gender regimes. This enables us to conceptualise different national projects as having a more or less public or domestic gender project. The conflicts between different national projects and with other polities, such as states, are then conflicts between differently gendered projects. The usefulness of this mid-level conceptualisation is demonstrated through examples of the competing relations between the UK, Ireland, the EU and the Catholic Church in a global era. [source]


    Reading Symbols, and Writing words.

    NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1019 2008
    A Model for Biblical Inspiration
    Abstract Biblical Inspiration has long been considered an important concept for Catholic theology, but the difficulties experienced in trying to give an adequate and convincing explanation of how divine and the human authors could collaborate in producing Biblical texts has discouraged many writers from pursuing the topic. Some have considered that the difficulties are so great that the task of exploring a theology of Inspiration is too great to make the effort worthwhile. This article, in attempting to sketch a model for Biblical Inspiration, begins by trying to identify exactly what is required for the theology of Inspiration, and then discarding what is not; it also sets out to distinguish clearly between Revelation and Inspiration, while recognising that the two are closely related, and using a model of symbolic mediation for Revelation. The article goes on to propose a model of Inspiration which satisfies not only the demands of contemporary Biblical scholarship and philosophical hermeneutics, but also the requirements of the doctrine of Inspiration as found in the Magisterial documents of the Catholic Church. [source]


    The Confrontation Between the Lithuanian Catholic Church and the Soviet Regime,

    NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1011 2006
    Vilma Narkut
    First page of article [source]


    Between Exile and Redemption: a View of the Catholic Church in England

    NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 995 2004
    Allan White OP
    First page of article [source]


    The world's first secular autonomous nursing school against the power of the churches

    NURSING INQUIRY, Issue 2 2010
    Michel Nadot
    NADOT M. Nursing Inquiry 2010; 17: 118,127 The world's first secular autonomous nursing school against the power of the churches Secular healthcare practices were standardized well before the churches' established their influence over the nursing profession. Indeed, such practices, resting on the tripartite axiom of domus, familia, hominem, were already established in hospitals during the middle ages. It was not until the last third of the eighteenth century that the Catholic Church imposed its culture on secular health institutions; the Protestant church followed suit in 1836. In reaction to the encroachment of religious orders on civil society and the amalgam of religious denominations favored, for example, by the devout Florence Nightingale (supported, in 1854, by Sir Sidney Herbert, the influential Puseyite), it is on 20 July 1859 that the great Swiss nineteenth century pedagogue and recipient of the Académie française Gold Medal, Valérie de Gasparin-Boissier (1813,94), proposed a model of secular healthcare training for nurses that would become a counter-model set in opposition to religious health institutions. Forerunner of later schools, the world's first secular autonomous Nursing School was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its mission was to bring decisive changes to the statutes of nurses' training, which were then still based on six principles not far removed from those of religious communities at the time: commitment for life, the Rule of St Augustine, obedience, celibacy, the renouncement of salary, and the uniform. [source]


    Political History and Disparities in Safe Motherhood Between Guatemala and Honduras

    POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 1 2006
    Jeremy Shiffman
    Each year, worldwide, more than 500,000 women die of complications from childbirth, making this a leading cause of death globally for adult women of reproductive age. Nearly all studies that have sought to explain the persistence of high maternal mortality levels have focused on the supply of and demand for particular health services. We argue that inquiry on health services is useful but insufficient. Robust explanations for safe motherhood outcomes require examination of factors lying deeper in the causal chain. We compare the cases of Guatemala and Honduras to examine historical and structural influences on maternal mortality. Despite being a poorer country than Guatemala, Honduras has a superior safe motherhood record. We argue that four historical and structural factors stand behind this difference: Honduras's relatively stable and Guatemala's turbulent modern political history; the presence of a marginalized indigenous population in Guatemala, but not in Honduras, that the state has had difficulty reaching; a conservative Catholic Church that has played a larger role in Guatemala than Honduras in blocking priority for reproductive health; and more effective advocacy for maternal mortality reduction in Honduras than Guatemala in the face of this opposition. [source]


    The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750,1850 , By Emmet Larkin

    THE HISTORIAN, Issue 4 2007
    Janet Nolan
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    Growing Together: Blacks and the Catholic Church in Boston

    THE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2004
    William C. Leonard
    First page of article [source]


    The Jung-White dialogue and why it couldn't work and won't go away

    THE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2007
    John P. Dourley
    Abstract:, White's Thomism and its Aristotelian foundation were at the heart of his differences with Jung over the fifteen years of their dialogue. The paper examines the precedents and consequences of the imposition of Thomism on the Catholic Church in 1879 in order to clarify the presuppositions White carried into his dialogue with Jung. It then selects two of Jung's major letters to White to show how their dialogue influenced Jung's later substantial work, especially his Answer to Job. The dialogue with White contributed to foundational elements in the older Jung's development of his myth which simply outstripped White's theological imagination and continues to challenge the worlds of contemporary monotheistic orthodoxy in all their variants. Translations of Abstract Le thomisme de White et ses fondements aristotéliciens furent au coeur de ses différences d'avec Jung au cours des quinze années que dura leur dialogue. L'article examine les précédents et les conséquences de l'imposition du thomisme à l'église catholique en 1879, dans le but d'éclairer les présupposés dont White était porteur au cours de son dialogue avec Jung. L'évocation de deux des lettres les plus importantes de Jung à White laisse apparaître comment leur dialogue influença le travail ultérieur de Jung, plus particulièrement sa Réponse à Job. Le dialogue avec White contribua à jeter les fondations de ce qui allait devenir le développement ultime de son mythe, et ce, bien au-delà de l'imagination théologique de White. Il constitue aujourd'hui encore un défi aux univers contemporains de l'orthodoxie monothéiste dans toutes leurs variantes. Whites Thomismus mit seiner aristotelischen Grundlage stand im Mittelpunkt seiner Differenzen mit Jung in ihrem über 15 Jahre andauernden Dialog. In dieser Arbeit werden frühere Beispiele und die Konsequenzen der Einführung des Thomismus in die katholische Kirche im Jahr 1879 untersucht, um die Vorannahmen zu verdeutlichen, die White in seinen Dialog mit Jung einbrachte. Der Autor bezieht sich auf zwei Briefe von besonderer Bedeutung an White, um zu zeigen, wie der Dialog Jungs spätere wichtige Arbeiten, insbesondere seine Antwort auf Hiob, beeinflusst hat. Der Dialog mit White trug zu grundlegenden Elementen bei, mit denen der späte Jung seinen Mythos entwickelte, welcher Whites theologische Vorstellungskraft übertraf und bis jetzt die Welt der gegenwärtigen monotheistischen Orthodoxien in all ihren Varianten in Frage stellt. Il Tomismo di White e le sue basi Aristoteliche furono al centro delle sue differenze da Jung per tutti i 15 anni del loro dialogo. Questo lavoro prende in esame i precedenti e le conseguenze dell'imposizione del Tomismo sulla Chiesa cattolica nel 1879, per chiarire i presupposti che White portò nel dialogo con Jung. Vengono poi selezionate due delle lettere più importanti che Jung spedì a White per mostrare in che modo il loro dialogo influenzò Jung nei lavori successivi, in particolare nella Risposta a Giobbe. Il dialogo con White contribuì a dare fondamenta a elementi nello sviluppo del mito dello Jung senior che semplicemente andavano molto oltre l'immaginazione teologica di White e continuano a sfidare i mondi dell'ortodossia monoteistica contemporanea in tutte le sue varianti. El Tomismo de White con su fundamente aristotélico se encuentra en el corazón de sus diferencias con Jung durante los quince años de su diálogo. Este trabajo examina los precedentes y las consecuencias de la imposición del Tomismo en la Iglesia Católica en 1879 para poder aclarar los prejuicios que White trajo a su diálogo con Jung. Entonces selecciono dos de las mas importantes cartas de Jung a White para mostrar como su diálogo influenció substancialmente la obra posterior de Jung, especialmente Respuesta a Job. El diálogo con White contribuyó a los elementos fundacionales del desarrollo maduro de Jung de su mito el cual simplemente se adelantó a la imaginación Teológica de White y continua retando los mundos de la monoteísmo ortodoxo contemporáneo y todas sus variantes. [source]


    Reckoning with Daniel J. Goldhagen's Views on the Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and Pope Pius XII

    THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Issue 3-4 2003
    Vincent A. LapomardaArticle first published online: 1 DEC 200
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    The Red Flag and the Ring: The Dances Surrounding Sino-Vatican Ties

    ASIAN POLITICS AND POLICY, Issue 3 2009
    Laura M. Luehrmann
    This article examines the possibilities of re-established diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Vatican, or the Holy See. It presents this diplomatic dance in historical context and discusses the potential benefits and trade-offs as seen from both sides. The complex relations between multiple Catholic communities within China, especially the "registered" and the "unregistered" church communities, as well as the contentious positions of clerical leadership in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, are discussed. Special attention is given to recent events during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, including the Papal Letter to Chinese Catholics of 2007. Both major actors, the Roman Catholic Church and the People's Republic of China, are treated as dominantly political players attempting to strengthen their hand in a rapidly changing political, social, and economic climate. [source]


    The French Churches and the Jewish Question: July 1940 , March 1941

    AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2000
    Jacques Adler
    This article examines why, following the military defeat of June 1940, the French Catholic Church remained silent as race laws were introduced, whereas before the war it had publicly rejected racism and opposed antisemitism. A number of reasons accounted for it. A strong conviction prevailed in its ranks that the regime which had then emerged offered a unique opportunity to resume preeminence in French society and regain rights formerly denied under the Republic. It took two years for members of the clergy to recognise that by its prolonged silence the Church had in fact jettisoned its traditional views on ,justice and charity' for all men. It was only after the deportation to the death camps of over fifty thousand Jews that it finally raised its voice up on their behalf. [source]


    ,Adorned with the Mix of Faith and Profanity that Intoxicates the People': The Festival of the Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1930,19541

    BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 2 2005
    Scott Ickes
    This essay looks at a formative period in the history of the festival of the Senhor do Bonfim, one of Salvador's most important religious festivals. The essay focuses on the public ritual washing of the Church of Bonfim and the tensions between the Catholic Church, who periodically banned the washing from the larger festival, and a variety of historical actors including politicians, journalists, authors and working-class Salvadorans whose efforts eventually contributed to the lifting of the prohibition once and for all in 1953. The author suggests that the defence of the washing both reflected and contributed to a larger hegemonic process taking place in Salvador after 1930, as actors within Salvador's dominant class accepted and even praised Afro-Bahian cultural practices, including them as integral parts of a larger Bahian identity. [source]


    BELGIAN SETTLEMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE INDIANA RUST BELT,

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2003
    SUSAN E. HUME
    ABSTRACT. At first glance the industrial city of Mishawaka, near the northern border of Indiana, appears to be ethnically homogeneous. Closer examination, however, reveals the rich ethnic heritage of Mishawaka, as it does in so many other Rust Belt cities from Pittsburgh to Chicago. One of the most fascinating of these immigrant stories is the rise of Belgian Town, on Mishawaka's southwest side. This study examines residential, commercial, and social patterns of this evolving ethnic community during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Although industrial jobs attracted immigrants to the city, creation of a Flemish Catholic church provided the foundation on which to build a tightly knit Belgian community. [source]