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Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Social Challenges for Families in Teaching of the Latin American Bishops (CELAM)
According to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, the task of the Catholic Church is to observe the processes taking place in people's lives and to read God's plans in them, and, through events in the world, appeal to believers to take ...
Ryszard Hajduk
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Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope into the Media Culture [PDF]
The “new atheism” and the “new evangelization” have become the buzzwords of the age. Atheism is now the fastest growing “religious” group in the United States; the new evangelization decisively shaped the conclave that elected Jorge Bergoglio to the ...
Margaret J. Obrovac
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THE PHENOMENON OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE VIRTUAL SPACE
The challenges of the modern globalizing information society are forcing the Christian confessions to give a new meaning to the value orientations of missionary activity and to improve its forms and means. Thanks to the active development of the Internet,
Irina Lomachinska, Petro Grebenyuk
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ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Struktura i kompetencje Papieskiej Rady ds. Krzewienia Nowej Ewangelizacji
The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization was established by Pope Benedict XVI in motu proprio Ubicumąue et semper (21 September 2010).
Agnieszka Romanko
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«God lives in Cities»: Catholic Model of Evangelization in the Megapolises [PDF]
The article is devoted to the Catholic model of Evangelization in the big city. The author shows that the usual parish model is in crisis being a result of the rapid urbanization and migration of the population.
Veronica Yazkova
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‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination
Abstract While scholars have studied coordination across occupational lines, they have yet to theorize how the memories held by those involved in such coordination might influence it. In this paper, we frame occupational groups as mnemonic communities – collectives for whom a shared understanding of the past constitutes their character – to explore the
Sung‐Chul Noh +2 more
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