Sexual Violence and Religious Institutions: With a Special Focus on the Catholic Church

2021 ◽  
pp. 4035-4059
Author(s):  
Dylan Abrams ◽  
Alex Bonagura ◽  
Cynthia Calkins
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Catholic Church

Nationalism and the Power of the Catholic Church in Poland*

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Samuel P. Oliner
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Church ◽  
Considerable Loss ◽  
The Catholic Church

The determination with which Communism has attacked religious institutions and theology has resulted in considerable loss of power for the Church in virtually all of the satellite countries. There appears to be one notable exception to this phenomenon, namely, the Polish Church.

scholarly journals Vatican Radio and Modern Propaganda

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Perin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
World War ◽  
Holy See ◽  
The Catholic Church

The essay deals with the employment of Vatican Radio as a modern instrument, which supplied the Catholic Church with a tool of modernisation. A special focus is put on the changes, in terms of method and content, that the radio effected in the apostolate. In order to demonstrate the increasing importance acquired by Vatican Radio for the diplomatic and propaganda aims of the Holy See, it will be considered the case-study of the condemnation of the Croatian anti-Semitic laws during World War II.

scholarly journals Cristianismo y pandemia en Argentina. Notas sobre la secularización del discurso religioso

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (13) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Diego Mauro ◽  
Mariano Fabris
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Religious Actors ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article analyzes the discourse of religious specialists on the pandemic. Throughout the essay we offer some provisional answers based on what happened in Argentina with the authorities of the Catholic Church and the associations of evangelical churches. We defend the hypothesis that the discourse of these religious actors about the pandemic had a low level of enchantment. We also affirm that it was based on a secularized view of society, health and politics, devoid of apocalyptic and conspiratorial perspectives. On the other hand, we affirm that two moments can be demarcated. In the first months, Christian religious institutions supported the government’s health measures. However, in the following months, critical voices emerged demanding more attention to religion in public policy.

Religious Institutions and Collective Action: The Catholic Church and Political Activism in Indigenous Chiapas and Yucatán

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Hale
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Decentralized Governance ◽  
The Catholic Church

AbstractWhy do religious organizations facilitate secular political activism in some settings but not others? I contend that where religious institutions are characterized by decentralized local governance, they are more likely to facilitate political activism. Drawing on nine months of field research and 60 interviews, I conduct a qualitative comparison between the Mexican states of Chiapas and Yucatán. I argue Chiapas exhibits highly decentralized governance by the Catholic Church whereas Yucatán exhibits centralized clerical management. This difference accounts for why Chiapas experiences high levels of indigenous political activism while Yucatán experiences very little political activism.

scholarly journals A questão do laicato. Um Tributo a José Comblin e Hugo Assmann

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (314) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
Sávio Carlos Desan Scopinho
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Ecclesial Communities ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The City ◽  
The Catholic Church

A questão do laicato está presente em vários campos da teologia e em muitos documentos do magistério eclesiástico. No desenvolvimento da Teologia da Libertação na América Latina essa questão foi apresentada de maneira implícita, embora sempre presente em vários momentos e com diversas abordagens específicas. No Brasil, a temática foi muito enfocada na perspectiva das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base e na reflexão de vários teólogos da libertação, com destaque para José Comblin e Hugo Assmann. A proposta deste artigo é apresentar duas obras desses autores cuja temática do laicato faz parte de seu conteúdo. José Comblin, em sua obra “Teologia da Cidade”, e Hugo Assmann, com seu livro “Teologia desde a Prática da Libertação”, ambos publicados respectivamente em francês e espanhol, propõem, cada um com suas peculiaridades, uma abordagem interessante e oportuna sobre a questão do laicato, pertinentes no atual contexto eclesial e eclesiológico da Igreja Católica diante do pluralismo cultural e religioso da sociedade, particularmente, latino-americana contemporânea. A retomada de suas interpretações visa apresentar a importância desses teólogos brasileiros e, mais que isso, recuperar a pertinência da temática do laicato, presente na história da Igreja Católica, no contexto do Concílio Vaticano II (1962-1965) e no desenvolvimento da Teologia da Libertação latino-americana. Abstract: The laity issue is present in several fields of the theology and in many documents of the Ecclesiastical Magisterium. In the development of the Liberation Theology in Latin America this issue was presented implicitly, although it has been present in various moments and with several specific approaches. In Brazil, the theme has been very focused in the perspective of the Basic Ecclesial Communities and in the reflection of various liberation theologians, with special focus on José Comblin and Hugo Assmann. The proposal of this article is to present two titles of these authors, in which the laity issue takes part of its content. José Comblin, in his title “The City Theology”, and Hugo Assmann, with his book “The Theology since the Liberation Practice”, published in French and in Spanish respectively, propose an interesting and opportune approach about the laity issue, each one with his peculiarities, which still has relevance in the current ecclesial and ecclesiological context of the Catholic Church before the cultural and religious pluralism of the contemporary society. The resumption of their interpretation aims to present the importance of these Brasilian theologians. Furthermore, it intends to recover the relevance of the laity issue present in the history of the Catholic Church in the context of the Second Vatican Concil (1962-1965) and in the development of the latin-american Liberation Theology.

scholarly journals Power from the Periphery?

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Gladys Ganiel
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article develops the concept of ‘extra-institutional religion,’ which was first introduced in the 2016 book Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland. It describes how the author’s research for a biography of Fr Gerry Reynolds, a Redemptorist based in Belfast’s Clonard Monastery during the Troubles, helped advance the concept by fostering insight into the importance of links between faith-inspired activists and institutional religion. It also develops the concept’s theoretical potential, arguing that it may be well-placed to contribute to wider change by balancing two paradoxical structural strengths: its position on the peripheries of religious, social, and political life; and its continued links with institutional religion. It relates these structural strengths to theoretical literature on religion and civil society (which alerts us to how change can emerge from the peripheries); and Grace Davie and Abby Day’s work on European religion (which alerts us to the continued importance of historically dominant religious institutions). It then describes how Reynolds’s activism was enhanced by the legitimacy and connections that came with his embeddedness in the Catholic Church. Examples include his work with Fr Alec Reid facilitating secret political negotiations during the Troubles; and public ecumenical initiatives like the Cornerstone Community, the Unity Pilgrims, and In Joyful Hope. While Reynolds was not practising extra-institutional religion, his example advances this concept by demonstrating that for faith-inspired activists, maintaining solid links with institutional religion may be more important for sparking change than was originally argued in Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland.

The Catholic Church and Education as Sources of Institutional Panic in the Philippines

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 778-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayeel Serrano Cornelio ◽  
Anne Raffin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
School System ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Variable Nature ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Modern Condition ◽  
Developing Society ◽  
Modern Thinking ◽  
The Catholic Church

AbstractIn this paper, we analyse two important institutions in the modernising society of the Philippines: the Catholic Church and the educational system. If one is to follow conventional modernisation theories, religion can be seen as a backward institution founded on irrationality, whereas education is a critical institution that ushers in modern thinking. As a developing society, the Philippines and hence its institutions present responses to the contemporary modern condition that run counter to the above. In particular, we focus our attention on seeing certain crises within both the Catholic Church and the school system as indicative of what Blum has called an 'institutional panic'. Taking our cue from what is known about panic responses at the level of the individual, we perceive educational and Catholic religious institutions as exhibiting behaviours of hyper-vigilance as an answer to stress-related situations. At the same time, these entities also have periods during which they let down their institutional guard, and may appear as more passive and demoralised. This perspective allows us to look at the variable nature of panic at an institutional level, and investigate institutional patterns of response to situations of vulnerability.

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