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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Professor Stavrophorian Archpriest Hristo Dimitrov: as the most prolific researcher in the field of Pastoral theology in Bulgaria

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
In this text, an attempt is made to present the personality, research and teaching activities of our prominent researcher in the field of Pastoral Theology, Professor Archpriest Hristo Dimitrov PhD.
Ivo Yanev
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Inter-Orthodox controversies between Romania and Yugoslavia in the interwar period

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article examines the disputes that existed in the interwar period over the recognition of a Romanian Orthodox bishopric in Yugoslavia (The official name ‘Yugoslavia’ was only adopted in 1929.
Paul Brusanowski
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Trapped in Economic Vulnerability? Pastoral Theological Reflections on Poverty

Religions
Poverty is a reality worldwide, impacting individuals, communities, and systems. However, poverty is by no means a simplistic concept and its complexity therefore needs to be highlighted as it varies from continent to continent.
Christo Thesnaar
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Pauline Theology or Pauline Tradition in the Pastoral Epistles: The Question of Method

Tyndale Bulletin, 1995
This article re-examines the common positioning of the Pastoral Epistles at the transition from second to third generation Christianity. While there is validity in recognising theological development in the Pastoral Epistles, this need not be explained ...
Philip H. Towner
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Religious Education in Transition: From Content-Centred to Student-Centred

Religions, 2022
Catholic Religious Education as a subject in school curricula is an area in which the need for change is constantly felt. This change is driven by the paradigm shift in anthropology brought about by Vatican Council II, which sought to put the human being
Carl-Mario Sultana
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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The objectives of pastoral accompaniment for married couples in the first years of married life in the light of the documents Amoris Laetitia and Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
One of the rapidly growing subfields in contemporary pastoral theology is the pastoral care of families. Besides numerous documents published during the pontificate of John Paul II, known as the Pope of the Family, particularly valuable responses from ...
Jacek Goleń, Julia Gorbaniuk
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