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ICT, catechesis and marriage and the family in the church in Nigeria: A qualitative study

Journal of Emerging Technologies, 2022
Despite various criticisms about Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), one cannot dismiss in a hurry that life is much easier today thanks to ICT. Indeed, advances in technology have improved gathering and sharing of information, ways of doing business and medical care. What is more, religious perspectives are also changing courtesy of new
Dyikuk, Justine John
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“Where the spirit of wisdom lies”: Inculturation, self‐determination and the authority of First Nations

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 516-537, December 2023., 2023
By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing ...
Laura Michelle Rademaker
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From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

Art 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, Cécile Fromont   +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Either (Nietzsche) / Or (Aristotle)? Macintyre's modernity and the enduring relevance of Kierkegaard

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 588-606, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay situates Alasdair MacIntyre's typology of moral enquiry in Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry relative to his critique of Søren Kierkegaard in After Virtue to offer an alternative reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or to the one MacIntyre proposes. The essay shows that MacIntyre's reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or fails to register
Joel D. S. Rasmussen
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Pope Francis’ Vision for a Synodal Church

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1113, Page 511-525, September 2023., 2023
Abstract ‘Synod’ and ‘synodality’ have become synonymous with Pope Francis. Since Pope Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops as a permanent office in 1965, there hasn't been any pontificate that has given these matters as much profile and attention as his has. Why is this the case, and what is Pope Francis’ vision for a synodal Church?
Eamonn Conway
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The material study of American Protestantism

Religion Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11-12, November-December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid‐1990s,
Jamie L. Brummitt
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non‐sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France

Oceania, Volume 92, Issue 1, Page 133-153, March 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Wallis and Futuna are a French overseas collectivity in Oceania. In 1969, the French state formally ceded responsibility for the territory's primary education to the Catholic mission and reimburses related expenses. Against this backdrop, this article uses the negotiations about primary education between these two non‐sovereign island ...
Gerard Prinsen, Allison Lotti, Elisabeth Worliczek   +2 more
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Catholic Housewives in Transition: The Centres for the Promotion of Women between the Franco Dictatorship and Democracy in Spain (1960–1980)

Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 623-643, December 2021., 2021
This article aims to study the history of the Centres for the Promotion of Women in relation to the changing religious and gender identities of Spanish women. The first centre was founded by the lay organisation Catholic Action Women in 1959 and similar centres quickly spread across the country, giving access to basic education to many women from a ...
Eider de Dios‐Fernández, Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco   +1 more
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