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Showing 1 to 20 of 312 for “"Catholicism"”.
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Anti-Catholicism in the Eighteenth Century Novel
Scholarship on anti-Catholicism in England abounds for the eras surrounding the eighteenth century, but for the eighteenth century itself, it remains limited. Of the research that does examine this period, the majority concerning literature pinpoints satire, poetry, sermons, and treatises as the …
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Confucians confront Catholicism in eighteenth-century Korea
… Confucian students in Korea were converted to Catholicism through books written in Chinese decades earlier by Jesuit missionaries in China. Those first Korean Catholics accepted Matteo Ricci's argument that Catholicism and Confucianism were compatible. The majority of their contemporaries did …
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Financing the Faith: Scottish Catholicism 1772- c.1890
This thesis considers the financial development of the Catholic Church in Scotland between 1772 and circa 1890. In 1772, the Church was heavily reliant on external, normally insufficient sources of income. The dangers of this over-reliance became clear when the progress of the French Revolution …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… a turn from an early association with political Catholicism to his later nationalist authoritarianism. This later approach to politics led Schmitt to promote plebiscitary dictatorship in the last years of the Weimar Republic and to then readily accept the National Socialist regime once it came to …
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Identity, Catholicism, and Lozi Culture in Zambia's Western Province
Inculturation is conversion on a communal and cultural level. Using ethnographic fieldwork among Lozi Catholic communities in the Western Province of Zambia, the case is made that both conversion and inculturation represent the same process of identity formation. Conversion is defined as a process …
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Black Conversions to Catholicism: An Analysis of Louisville Data
… the black Protestant denominations turned to Catholicism. For the past quarter of a century, researchers have speculated over the reasons for blacks converting to Catholicism. Except in passing references in larger studies, little research of a sociological nature has been completed on the …
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Catholicism and the literature of New England, 1815--1865
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… which occurred in English attitudes to Roman Catholicism, and in the construction of English national identity, in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. It argues that the excltisivist Protestant identity of the nation, which had hitherto been maintained by an anti-Catholic …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… the larger sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism. This particular vision sustained that marriage and vowed chastity were two valid Christian lifestyles, the latter giving women an opportunity for greater autonomy than their Protestant counterparts. This project explores how religious …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
<p>“Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico” examines the emergence of Catholicism and its local expressions among Africans and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home to the second …
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The Elements of Catholicism in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Across the shadowy stage of the late Jacobean theater steps Philip Massinger, the last great figure in the play of a vanishing glory before the Puritans ring down the curtain on the epilogue of the greatest literary spectacle of the ages—the Elizabethan Drama. A century and a half will elapse …
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Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines
… space of change within popular Filipino Roman Catholicism.
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Religious Mobility and the Development of English Catholicism, 1532-1558
… in shaping the development of English Catholicism from the beginnings of Henry VIII’s break with Rome, to the death of Mary I. The state-driven religious innovations of the 1530s and 1540s prompted over two hundred religious conservatives to flee England. This project examines how the …
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
… cultural and political development of Liberal Catholicism in modern Italy. The events of the Risorgimento had deprived the Catholic Church of her temporal power in 1860 after the Second War of Italian Unification. Pius IX then promulgated Non expedit. The encyclical refused to recognize the …
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
… cultural and political development of Liberal Catholicism in modern Italy. The events of the Risorgimento had deprived the Catholic Church of her temporal power in 1860 after the Second War of Italian Unification. Pius IX then promulgated Non expedit. The encyclical refused to recognize the …
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