As a segment of American society far from the cultural supports of home, missionary women present an opportunity to examine the transforming zeal of antebellum American society at a time when the United States was driven by an expansionist spirit. American women went forth to re…
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According to the doctrine of purgatory, souls departing life in God's grace who haven't yet received remission of their sins, will suffer a temporary punishment in purgatory in order to be purged of sins and ready for heaven. Le Goff (1984), a scholar of medieval history, states…
This dissertation is my own contribution in responding to the concern raised by certain communication scholars. Their concern was that little research and few publications have been done in the communication field by communication scholars that trace the relationship among relig…
The life of Caritas Pirckheimer spanned revolutionary times in the history of the Church. She is best-known for her response to Lutheranism, a compendium of writings known as the Denkwürdigkeiten. In it, she forcefully repudiated efforts to convert her to Protestantism and to cl…
This dissertation studies religion and family from the economic point of view. What distinguishes the economic approach from the other social sciences is that it adheres to a set of natural economic laws applying to human action regardless of time and place. Thus, all actors in …
Pope Francis issued the apostolic constitution Vultum Dei quaerere in 2016 in which he emphasizes the importance of monasteries belonging to federations in order to avoid isolation and “to ensure . . . continuous formation.” Cor orans, the instruction implementing Vultum Dei qua…