salvation of some of its characters. Luhrmann not only places Catholicism at the centre of the film – looming over every character's head – but he also implies that God, through his open-armed gigantic sculpture, welcomes anyone to Catholicism. The director
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Catholicism and Social Policy
The Cases of Brazil and the United States
Luciano Aronne de Abreu and Nathalia Henrich
programmatic and ideological debate over corporatism: the heavy imprint of Catholicism. Before advancing further into the analysis of such debate, we ought to underscore the existence of several possible interpretations of the core tenets of corporatism and
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2023
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- Research Article
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- 7–25 (19 total)
Marjo de Theije
Based on research in Brazil, the author discusses three local situations of conflict and social protest, using a transnational perspective. She concentrates on the use of universal claims of Catholicism in local negotiations of religious change under the influence of different cultural campaigns. The clashes in question are divided into those involving local political problems and those concerning the religious domain itself. The analysis shows that in each of the cases—albeit with different intensity and outcome—the interconnection between translocal processes and the meaning and experience of locality has a significant role in the power plays and the formulations of religious or social protest in the local context.
Thomas Kselman
This article examines some of Langlois's major works on nineteenth-century French Catholicism, which taken together suggest a vision langloisienne defined by three central, intimately interrelated insights. First, for Langlois a chronology of French Catholicism based on an assumption of an ineluctable process of dechristianization needs to be replaced by a more nuanced and contingent understanding of the evolution of belief and practice. Second, a revised chronology illuminates important sectors of creative vitality within Catholicism, particularly with regard to female religious congregations. Third, historians of religion must be willing to use a variety of methods in exploring their subject; social scientific approaches are crucial, but they complement rather than replace traditional narrative, biography, and a close reading of literary texts. The article concludes with reflections on the normative posture that is implicit in Langlois's historical writing, a position based on his commitment to the values of toleration and equality.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2013
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- 66–81 (16 total)
Randolph Miller
unnatural and unhealthy expression of femininity, one that threatened order and remained destructive to society. In the face of what Stone called “a reinvigorated and female-centered Catholicism,” these criticisms were increasingly problematic, which
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 78–100 (23 total)
Battle of Cosmologies
The Catholic Church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia
Signe Howell
abandonment of existing metaphysics (e.g., Knauft 2002 ; Robbins 2004 , 2009 ), or, as in the case of the Indonesian Lio, 1 it may meet resistance. Catholicism was introduced to the Lio in the late 1920s, and today most Lio individuals will say that they
Pity Silenced
Economies of Mercy in The Merchant of Venice
Alessandra Marzola
of Catholic pity. The lingering presence of such pitiful traces – the spectral residua of averred Catholicism – points however, in the conclusion, to the fault lines of mercy, and to the shortcomings of its validating power. 2 Mercy above all
Vocation and political activism
Sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia?
Sian Lazar
In this paper, I explore religious languages for political activism through values commonly given as reasons for becoming a unionist in Argentina. My interlocutors repeatedly emphasised their sense of vocation and service, as well as love, commitment and passion for the cause and for fellow activists or workers. Together, these related values comprise the sacred aspects of political activism, which is informed by a specific history of the blend between Peronism and Catholicism since the mid‐20th century.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Feb 2021
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- Research Article
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- 108–122 (14 total)
Religious Tourism
Analytical Routes through Multiple Meanings
Emerson Giumbelli
Translator : Jeffrey Hoff
earlier book, Steil (1996) presents his experiences at the sanctuary, analyzing the reciprocal and circular relations between institutional Catholicism and folk Catholicism. For him, the book by Eade and Sallnow (1991 ) is also an important source of
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- 24–38 (15 total)
For Belief
Embodiment and Immanence in Catholicism and Mormonism
Jon P. Mitchell and Hildi J. Mitchell
This article argues for belief, suggesting that the reason why anthropologists might have moved against belief is their persistent attachment to a linguistic model of religion that sees the job of the anthropologist of religion as being one of translation. In such a model, the absence of the word 'belief' signals the absence of the process. We argue for the enduring utility of belief, not as a linguistic category, but as a description of experiential processes at the heart of religion. Using examples from popular Catholicism and Mormonism, we contend that such processes are rooted in the body. Through bodily practice and performance, religion is generated as an immanent force in the world—people come to believe.