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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"Catholics"”.
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Godparents Among Mexican-American and Anglo-American Catholics
… among Mexican American and Anglo-American Catholics. The primary purpose was to answer four questions: (1) Who is selected to be a godparent; (2) How he or she is chosen: (3) When the godparent is selected; and (4) What the parents expect the godparent to do for the child. In order to …
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Explaining Partisan Change Among Catholics In The American Electorate
… determinants of the political behavior of Catholics in the American electorate. A complex array of variables including religious commitment, generational differences, social status, and policy attitudes account for limited change in partisan alignment among American Catholics. The analyses …
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Salvation in the Scholarship of Seventeenth-Century English Catholics
… scholarship of three seventeenth-century English Catholics: Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Thomas White (1593–1676), and Franciscus à Sancta Clara (c. 1598–1680). My first overarching argument is that salvation is an invaluable and historiographically underappreciated conceptual focus that improves …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… examines the impact movies had on the place of Catholics of European descent in mainstream white America. Most scholars who study the history of Catholic populations in this country assume that they attained whiteness at some point. Whether with the Irish in the late nineteenth century, or more …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
This dissertation traces the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945 by concentrating on politics and religion. It follows the various people and groups who contributed to the city's rise from the ashes and shaped its image in Japan and the world. In contrast to …
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Eucharist and Anthropology: Seeking Convergence on Eucharistic Sacrifice Between Catholics and Methodists
… is offered and by whom. Since the Reformation, Catholics and Protestants have been divided over of eucharistic sacrifice, and for most of its history after the death of the Wesleys, Methodism somewhat uncritically followed in the Protestant tradition. Now, after four decades of productive …
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
… common mixed marriages between Protestants and Catholics, as well as the relatively less common ones between Jews and non-Jews. Like Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities themselves, social boundaries shaped these unions and spurred the ways in which their meanings changed over time. One …
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Caring for Our Common Home: 'Écologie Intégrale' as Political Theology among French Catholics
… I demonstrate, firstly, that the place of Catholics in the French Republic is simultaneously central and marginal – both in their political participation in the public sphere, and in their cultural relationship with the sphere of education. I situate the rise of ‘integral ecology’ as an …
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Companions on the Journey: Symbolic Interaction in Helping Relationships and the Development of Spirituality For Young Adult Catholics
… specifically designed for young adult Catholics and helpers which examined the value, role, and scope of spirituality in the lives of participants. Emergent themes included prayer life, discussion of spirituality, spiritual influences, and communication in helping relationships. …
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The health of Irish-descended Catholics in Glasgow: a qualitative study of the links between health risk and religious and ethnic identities
… the positive health benefits to be gained by Catholics through being religious are also likely to wane, as a defined religious culture among Catholics becomes less prevalent. The continued perception of the diffuse experience of anti-Catholic bigotry in social life appears to influence health …
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Laity and Clergy in the Catholic Renewal of Dublin C.1750 1830
… transformation. By the nineteenth-century Catholics in Dublin could satisfy their appetites for private piety with Catholic literature. However, public piety was also catered for thanks to the establishment of a growing network of religious confraternities and sodalities. This reception of …
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ΔΙΑΜΑΧΕΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΜΕΝΙΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΤΟΠΩΝ
… AND DIFFICULTIES BECAUSE OF THE ARMENIANS AND CATHOLICS.BOTH ARMENIANS AND CATHOLICS WISHED TO DISMISS GREEKS AND TAKING THEIR HOLY SHRINES. ARMENIANS USED ANY KIND OF MEAN HONORABLE AND NOT TO OBTAIN THEIR PURPOSE. THE RESULT OF THIS CONFLICT IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR GREEKS. THEY BECAME IN THE SAME …
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"Of old Puritan stock" : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
… that shifts in memory demonstrate how American Catholics negotiated their place in society using stories and ideas usually associated with Protestants. During the antebellum era, Catholics used "Puritan" to mean bigot and hypocrite, but Civil War-era rhetoric connected North and Union with …
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Using the Internet for religion: a study of the possible use of the Internet for religious purposes among the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Mumbai, India
… administered to a representative sampling of Catholics from the Archdiocese of Mumbai. The data provides not only general trends of net use among the Catholics, but also nuanced perceptions of the net in relationship to its religious use. Research evidence indicated that the Internet was not …
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"""A sturdy native plant"": The American Catholic education system, the American Catholic philosophy of education, and American Catholic identity, 1919-1972"
… into American life. Millions of ethnic Catholics lived in a culture dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants who expected conformity to their ideals of the American way of life. This hostility varied in tenor over the years, yet it profoundly shaped resistance to the dominant culture. …
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