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The management of iron chelation therapy: preliminary data from a national registry of thalassaemic patients. [PDF]

open access: yesAnemia, 2011
Thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies constitute an important health problem in Mediterranean countries, placing a tremendous emotional, psychological, and economic burden on their National Health systems. The development of new chelators in the most recent years had a major impact on the treatment of thalassaemia and on the quality of life of ...
Ceci A   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023
In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García   +1 more
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Crossroads of Identities in Women Religious in Spain. Catholicism, Society and Second Vatican Council (1953–69)*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 469-485, September 2023., 2023
This article examines the evolution and transformation of female religious life in Spain under Franco's regime, which began after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with the dictator's death in 1975. During the dictatorship, the public stance towards Catholicism made consecrated religious life one of the potential social undertakings for women at ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Catholic Dressing in the Spanish Franco Dictatorship (1939–1975): Normative Femininity and Its Sartorial Embodiment

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 582-602, December 2021., 2021
The Francoist state, in collusion with the Church, tried to domesticate women's bodies and encode dressing patterns in accordance with Catholic moral doctrine. This article interrogates the normative notion of femininity in Francoism, focusing on ecclesiastical discourse and Catholic dress code. The Church dictated dressing norms, and the Franco regime
Uxía Otero‐González
wiley   +1 more source

Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
wiley   +1 more source

Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Igreja e política: abordagem teológica à luz do Concílio Vaticano II

open access: yesPistis & Praxis: Teologia e Pastoral, 2013
No contexto da celebração dos 50 anos do Concílio Vaticano II e dos 40 anos da teologia da libertação, este artigo aborda teologicamente a problemática da relação Igreja-política a partir das intuições e formulações do Concílio e sua recepção e ...
Francisco de Aquino Júnior
doaj   +1 more source

Essentialising Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Thresholds of Masculinity and Femininity in the Early Modern Catholic Church c.1700

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 109-124, March 2025.
Abstract This article focuses on four individuals from France and Italy who were viewed as hermaphrodites and their attempts to become members of the Catholic clergy between c.1650 and 1720. Drawing on largely unexplored material from the archive of the Roman Congregation of the Council, this article argues that whether, and how, bodies were ...
Brendan Röder
wiley   +1 more source

EPISCOPAL NO VATICANO II O CONCÍLIO CONVIDA-NOS A RESGATAR UM DADO FUNDAMENTAL DA TRADIÇÃO ECLESIAL

open access: yesPerspectiva Teológica, 2005
A colegialidade episcopal constitui um dos mais importantes temas eclesiológicos do Concílio Vaticano II. Com o intuito de fazer contrapeso ao ensinamento do Concílio Vaticano I sobre o ministério petrino, os Padres conciliares, no Vaticano II ...
Paulo César Barros
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1498-1513, October 2024.
Abstract Three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers have been identified in the literature: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates?
Massimo Pulejo
wiley   +1 more source

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