The Igbo people of Nigeria are loosing their traditional cultural heritage to western culture. There is a growing concern among the leaders that something must be done to restore it. I want to revive the traditional Igbo burial music among the Ngwa people in Igboland. The method…
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Cold War international relations theory allowed little, if any, room for considering the role of moral authority in international relations. In the post-Cold War period, social constructivism has contributed to international relations theory a new paradigm that both allows a rol…
The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the experiences of Chaldean immigrant women, with an emphasis on gender and family, in metropolitan Detroit. Research was conducted between 1993 and 1997. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews, ethnographic field work and p…
In 1567 the Spanish king, Philip II, prohibited the use of Arabic in Granada. Throughout his reign, however, he urged Catholic priests to study the indigenous languages of America. The apparent contradiction between Philip’s support of Amerindian languages and his prohibition of…
This dissertation, based on extensive oral data as well as archival documents gathered in Nigeria, France and Ireland, examines the interactions between local women and the Roman Catholic mission in Onitsha, Nigeria, from the founding of the mission in 1885 to 1964. It traces tr…
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of Chaldean parents on their children's education and working. Literature on minority students has shown that children from low socioeconomic status have less support from their parents to complete school and tend to be le…
This study examines the historical significance of LAS HERMANAS, a twenty-six year old national religious-political organization of Chicana and Latina Roman Catholics. Through direct involvement in the Chicano Movement, the organization expanded the ministerial role of the U.S, …
This dissertation examines the Jesuits' popular missions in Spanish-controlled Southern Italy during the early modern period as a window onto the dynamic relationship between religion and popular culture during the Catholic Reformation. The Jesuits left an important legacy of in…
Before 1870, the Protestant church determined the moral vision of the United States, viewing its values as essential to the success of American democracy at home and its expansion abroad. But after the 1870s domestic labor unrest forced Protestant leaders to launch a crusade to …
Africans in general agree that in the post-colonial and post-apartheid period it is necessary to develop new structures and a new outlook that transcends tribalism, reconciles native Africans and immigrants from Asia and Europe with one another, and builds bridges between the in…
This dissertation explores the link between Catholicism and the contemporary identities of Bosnian Croats, Croatian Croats, and Slovenes. I ask why and how religion, specifically Catholicism, has remained an important public institution in some but not in all studied societies, …
A major concern for the field of ministry in every age has always been to seek an effective approach that will enable ministers to reach out to the people of God in a manner that addresses the contemporary and changing spiritual needs of the world. Many current theologians and t…
This dissertation examined the centrality of the principle of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching, in bringing about social and moral reconstruction of society and in particular the Nigerian social context. The origin of this principle has been traced to the natural human i…
This study was designed to examine four Catholic school classrooms to further understand private education in Indonesia. Private education in Indonesia accounts for over 30% of the education system (Ministry of Education and Culture, 1999). In addition, the government of Indones…
During the first half of the `long' eighteenth century the English were, as anation, vehemently anti-Catholic, yet the art that was most admired, collected andtalked about, was Catholic in origin and subject matter (pictures showing theintercession of saints or the figure of God…
Voluntary aided schools exhibit a unique combination of characteristics including; responsibility for admissions, employment of staff (including the right to prioritise on the basis of faith), control of the RE curriculum, ownership of the premises, and funding from and being pa…
In his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Ecclesia in Africa (1995), Pope John Paul II stated: "While adopting the positive values of modernity, The African family must preserve its own essential values." Similarly, Dr. Lawrence Okafor observed in his book Recent African Immigr…
This dissertation explores how Catholic parish twinning---the linking together of North American and Haitian parishes in grassroots partnerships---relates to "conventional" international development discourses and practices. As neoliberal policies aim to shrink states and expand…
The separate papers which make up this dissertation recount research findings from Tonggo, a municipality of thirteen villages located in south-central Flores, an island in Eastern Indonesia. Fieldwork was carried out between April 1997 and November 1998 and involved inland peop…