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Crossroads of Identities in Women Religious in Spain. Catholicism, Society and Second Vatican Council (1953–69)*

Journal 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
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions

The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 87-117, February 2023., 2023
Abstract This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the eighteenth century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional.
Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez, Carlos Tejerizo‐García   +1 more
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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Between Virgins and Priests: The Feminisation of Catholicism and Priestly Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Spain

Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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Democracia y cristianismo [PDF]

, 2021
How to cite: Sáez, F. (1958). Democracia y cristianismo. Pedagogía, 6(2), 7-15.Cómo citar: Sáez, F. (1958). Democracia y cristianismo.
Sáez, Florencio
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Cristianismo no Congo

África, 2021
Na costa atlântica do continente africano, a formação política Kongo, situada em torno do rio Congo para sul, constitui um caso singular de relação secular e duradoura com o cristianismo. Em 1491, na sequência das viagens do Diogo Cão, o Mwene Kongo Nzinga Nkuwu aceitou o baptismo que lhe foi proposto pelos religiosos portugueses.
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Cristianismo conservador

Revista Protesta y Carisma, 2021
Since the 2018 presidential elections, Brazil has been experiencing a scenario of strong and violent irresponsibility, misinformation and disservice, with the spectacle of necropolitics having worsened with the advent of the new coronavirus pandemic (Sars-Cov-2) that causes covid-19 .
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Bibliografía de mujeres sobre las mujeres en el cristianismo: las diáconas.

Carthaginensia, 2021
Bibligrafía de mujeres sobre las mujures en el cristianismo. Recoge un centenar de obras publicadas en los últimos tiempos sobre la temática de las mujeres en el cristianismo.
Francisco Henares Díaz
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