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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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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
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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Ideas for Mapping Lifeworld and Everyday Life in Practical Social Pedagogy
Abstract Since the 1970s, the concepts of “lifeworld” and “everyday life” have been part of the discourse of social pedagogy and social and educational work in general. Xavier Úcar's objective in this article is to generate and communicate socio‐pedagogical knowledge that helps social pedagogues to build socio‐educational relationships that are more ...
Xavier Úcar
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This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on “the local” and on deconstruction rather than on construction and “the global.” By undertaking a cross‐cultural case study — Medieval and Early Modern ...
Gerard Wiegers
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Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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“Making Education Possible Again”: Pragmatist Experiments for a Troubled and Down‐to‐Earth Pedagogy
Abstract In this article, Bianca Thoilliez draws on pragmatist notions of fallibilism and pluralism to develop proposals for possible educational interventions to address the problem of “post‐truth” conditions. Post‐truth, she contends, is not only a political danger for liberal democracies, but it also poses a serious threat of extinction for our ...
Bianca Thoilliez
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Obra ressenyada: Anastasio OVEJERO BERNAL, Los perdedores del nuevo capitalismo. Devastación del mundo del trabajo.
Montalbán Peregrín, F. Manuel
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Reseña de: Gaudin, Guillaume, El Imperio de papel de Juan Díez de la Calle. Pensar y gobernar el Nuevo Mundo en el siglo XVII, (Prefacio de Thomas Calvo y Epílogo de Óscar Mazín), Madrid, Fondo de Cultura Económica-El Colegio de Michoacán, Madrid, 2017 ...
José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez
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En 1804, el jesuita novohispano Pedro José Márquez al publicar en Roma su célebre opúsculo titulado Due antichi Monumenti di Architettura messicana, describía la Pirámide de los Nichos de El Tajín con las siguientes palabras: “La forma del monumento ...
Oscar Flores
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
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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