In the French Revolution, revolutionary legislators faced the problem of how to relate to the Catholic Church, to which the vast majority of citizens belonged. Inheriting theological, legal, and Enlightenment philosophical categories for thinking about religion and the Church, t…
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L’histoire des femmes acadiennes durant les années 1960 et 1970 est encore sousétudiée. Une manière d’aborder le passé des femmes est par l’étude du concept de genre, soit l’évolution des rôles, valeurs et normes de comportements prescrites aux femmes. Nous pouvons cerner ces va…
Milâttan Önce 180’de Kutsal Kitabın ilk tercümesi olarak karşımıza çıkan Septuagint ile başlayan Kutsal Kitap tercümeleri günümüzde de hâlen devam eden, Hıristiyanlık tarihi açısından önemli çalışmalardır. Reform öncesinde de birçok dile tercümesi yapılan Kutsal Kitabın özellikl…
This thesis examines how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) claim legitimacy in the UK national context with the aim of increasing the understanding of how NGOs’ access to power is justified. The thesis argues that the limits of current theories on NGOs and legitimacy do not …
The thesis sets out to examine the debate on national identity and immigration in Italy. It analyses whether Italy, in reacting to immigration, is following any classic model of integration of foreign citizens following the example of countries such as Britain and France, or whe…
Consistent with its mission and commitment to spread its values and cultures, the Catholic Church worldwide increasingly has asserted itself in public life with an emphasis on promotion of common good principles through education. In Nigeria, the Church engaged both public offic…
The purpose of this study was to determine through available documents and select interviews: (1) The challenges that Catholic youth in today's society experience in living their Catholic Faith; (2) How well the Catholic schools are meeting these challenges; (3) What needs to be…
The central focus of this dissertation “Haitian Vodou: Pwen (Magical Charge) in Ritual Practice” is to elucidate a central component of Haitian Vodou ritual, known as pwen, which literally means “point” or magical charge. This query begins with a theoretical discussion of what p…
This thesis proposes that the narrative engagement of ethical leadership is foundational for contemporary Lay Ecclesial Leadership of ministries of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is argued that in the appointment of women and men as board directors it is essential to devel…
One of the areas of diaconal ministry is proclaiming the Gospel and preaching the Word of God. Much has been written about the need for better preaching in the Catholic church, especially at Sunday Mass. This project considers the manner in which United States diocese train thei…
This thesis explores how homosexuality has been reframed as a political and moral “other” by far-right movements and religious institutions in Poland and Russia. I leverage theories about democratic backsliding, otherization, and religious nationalism to argue that the purpose o…
For millennia, traditional universal history – a genre of history that aims to collect the history of the entire universe into one universal narrative – had derived its narrative universality from its close association with the Catholic Biblical narrative. When the relevancy of …
In this thesis, I demonstrate how Catholic pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon. I define public history as public engagement, understanding, and use of the past. While I assert that pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon both in the past and in the present, my thesis wi…
This project discovered how the Catholic Church includes people with developmental disabilities in the life of their congregations. A five-point Likert scale survey was used to collect data from Catholic Churches. The survey was distributed to 400 churches with 52 being returned…
This paper explores how two US Catholic newspapers—the National Catholic Reporter and the National Catholic Register—reported on the topic of sex abuse in the Church in 2018, revolving around how they presented and discussed the events surrounding Cardinal McCarrick’s abuse reve…
My dissertation, “Becoming Zapatista: Conflict and Political Mobilization in San Andrés Larráinzar, 1959-1996,” explores how support for the Zapatista Uprising emerged in the highland community of San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, and how indigenous activism took its particular sh…