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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Słoweński Kościół katolicki w okresie II wojny światowej i rządów marszałka Tito (1941–1980)

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2016
The history of Slovenian Catholic Church is a field, which is not well known in Poland. That is why this article aims to present one of the peculiar episode from the past of Slovenian Catholicism.
Piotr Żurek
doaj   +1 more source

Out of Africa: How a New Generation of Theologians is Reshaping the Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The article offers information on the first regional conference of the global network of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church held in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2012.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Celibacy and the child sexual abuse crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Celibacy has received a great deal of media attention recently due to the well-publicized sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. The Boston Globe reported in January 2002 that a Roman Catholic priest had sexually abused 138 children over ...
Plante, Thomas G
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Mastering the Devil: A Sociological Analysis of the Practice of a Catholic Exorcist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study takes the documented growth in the ministry of exorcism within the Catholic Church as a significant challenge to some accounts of secularization.
Giordan, Giuseppe, Possamai, Adam
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