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After All, Africa is Largely a Nonliterate Continent : The Reception of Vatican II in Africa [PDF]

, 2013
The article examines critical factors that determined the impact, reception, and implementation of Vatican II in Africa. Drawing on historical accounts, the author identifies and analyzes personalities, contexts, and issues that conditioned and shaped ...
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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Catechesis in Italy between the Two Vatican Councils - 1870-1962 [PDF]

, 2017
The article endeavours to give a bird’s eye view of catechesis in Italy as from 1870 to the threshold of Vatican Council II – 1962. The point of departure is a study of the use of the Catechism as the handbook for Catechesis.
Sultana, Carl-Mario
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European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
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Reception of the Second Vatican Council in Tucumán, 1965-1973 [PDF]

, 2012
A mediados de la década de 1960 finalizaba el Concilio Vaticano II, uno de los hitos más importantes del mundo católico del siglo XX. Los documentos elaborados plantearon una renovación de ciertos aspectos en lo litúrgico así como también en la ...
Schkolnik, Iris
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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The status of Catholic liturgical music during the Second Vatican Council [PDF]

Muzikologija
The study deals with historical, social, cultural, and anthropological aspects of Roman Catholic liturgical music during the Second Vatican Council.
Peno Vesna Sara, Stevanović Sanja
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Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment (1670–1815) [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter examines the Catholic Church’s engagement with the Enlightenment from 1670–1815. It considers Catholic philosophies of the Enlightenment and new conceptualizations of natural law.
Lehner, Ulrich
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Anthropocentrism and theocentrism as varied life purport paradigm of modern Catholic Church being (sacred-secular reversion)

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2015
This article analyzes aggiornament reverse of Catholicism after the Second Vatican Council, the determining factors of which were anthropological theology with the discourse of humanism as human dignity and leveling exclusivity of traditional theism.
Olga Yarotska
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Examining the Doctrine of Discovery in Religion and Indigenous Studies

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Since the publication of Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded significantly as a central issue in Indigenous law and politics. However, its implications remain underexamined in Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, and legal scholarship.
Adam D. J. Brett, Betty Hill
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Seeds for an Encounter Ethics: The Fruit of Reading Veritatis Splendor Beyond a Post-Conciliar Binary Narrative

Journal of Moral Theology
Two of the more recent methodological narratives about twentieth-century moral theology, written by James Keenan and Matthew Levering, argue that an intractable methodological division over law and conscience emerges in the wake of Vatican II.
Catherine Moon
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