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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 297-320, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Urban marketplace fires in Ghana are chronic, devasting in economic losses and disproportionately impacting informal sector workers. Yet, the scholarly works on urban disasters have focused on hydrometeorological and other man‐made disasters to the neglect of marketplace fires, particularly the challenges in risk communication between ...
Matthew Abunyewah +5 more
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 469-485, September 2023., 2023 This article examines the evolution and transformation of female religious life in Spain under Franco's regime, which began after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with the dictator's death in 1975. During the dictatorship, the public stance towards Catholicism made consecrated religious life one of the potential social undertakings for women at ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Scientists' warning to humanity on tree extinctions
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 466-482, July 2023., 2023 Trees play vital roles in many of the world's ecosystems while providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are threatened with extinction, representing a tree extinction crisis. Here we demonstrate how tree species extinction will lead to the loss of many other plants and animals and significantly alter the ...
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Sociology Compass, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Public debates and controversies on moral issues have gained visibility in recent decades in both Spain and Mexico. Conservative Catholic groups and networks are increasingly playing a crucial role in raising and framing highly morally charged themes in the public arena, especially on intimacy‐related policies, including sexual and ...
Joseba García Martín +2 more
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 540-558, December 2021., 2021 This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 582-602, December 2021., 2021 The Francoist state, in collusion with the Church, tried to domesticate women's bodies and encode dressing patterns in accordance with Catholic moral doctrine. This article interrogates the normative notion of femininity in Francoism, focusing on ecclesiastical discourse and Catholic dress code. The Church dictated dressing norms, and the Franco regime
Uxía Otero‐González
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A Man Just Like Other Men? Masculinity and Clergy in Spain during Late Francoism (1960–1975)
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 603-622, December 2021., 2021 While the notion of masculinity has been incorporated by European and North American research into the field of study of religious history, in Spain its introduction is still in its infancy. This article reflects on the contribution of religious discourses and the experiences of male clergy to the construction of different identity models of ...
Mónica Moreno‐Seco
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Diálogo Ecuménico, 2022 The article by Dr Elie Mputtu considers a theme rarely treated within ecumenical studies, namely, the contribution that religious and monastic forms of life, of the various Christian Confessions, can make to the advancement of Christian Unity. Dr Mputtu brings to his study some authors not widely known, but he relies centrally on the doctrine of the ...
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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 ...
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