From Romanism to Race: Anglo-American Liberties inUncle Tom's Cabin

Prospects ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 229-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Fessenden
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The 19Th Century

Simon Legree's taunting invitation to “join [his] church” reminds us that the novel routinely credited with abolishing slavery relied for part of its force on anxieties surrounding religious conversion. Although conversion as the emotional surrender to faith under one or another form of Protestantism remained the norm when Harriet Beecher Stowe was writingUncle Tom's Cabin, as many as 700,000 Americans did join the Roman Catholic Church as converts in the 19th century. The middle third of the century also saw the arrival of nearly 3 million Catholic immigrants, whose perceived intemperance, sexual license, and conspiratorial designs on American institutions animated white Protestant preaching and political action more consistently than did the evils of slavery or racism.

scholarly journals Zawarcie małżeństwa mieszanego wyznaniowo według prawa małżeńskiego z 1836 roku

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Fastyn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Civil Marriage ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The 19Th Century

The thesis discusses the signifi cant question of inter-denominational marriages in Poland prior to 1946. Until the end of 1945, the laws in force in Poland were the 19th-century statutes. They had been enacted by the neighbouring countries (Austria, Russia and Prussia) that partitioned the Polish territory in the second half of the 18th century. In the Polish lands enjoying some autonomy in the Russian Empire, the regulation of marriage was based on the religious principles of 1836. Under the 1836 statute, there could be no civil marriage that would not produce a confessional effect. Consequently, the regulation of marriage had to combine confessional and civil effects into single norms and the legislative authorities had to provide for mechanisms correlating such effects. This applied to both the conclusion and dissolution of marriage. In these matters, the Roman Catholic Church adopted an uncompromising stance following from its belief in the special theological character of the sacrament of marriage.

scholarly journals Economic theory of distributism

2015 ◽  
pp. 653-676
Author(s):  
Misa Djurkovic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Specific Direction ◽  
The Status ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Social Teachings ◽  
Economic Thinking

this paper, the economic theory of distributism has been analyzed. In the first place, the author explains that the distributism is a social thought which emerged in the Anglo-American world as the development of social teachings in the Roman Catholic Church. Although it has not received the status the main schools in modern economic thought have, distrubutism persists as a specific direction of socio-economic thinking. The paper particularly investigates the ideas of classical distibutism. The author focuses on two basic books by Gilbert Chesterton and two most important economic books by Hilaire Belloc. These authors have insisted on the problem of society moving towards the so-called servile state in which a small number of capitalists rule over mass of proletarians who are gradually coming under slavery status, which is sanctioned by the law. For the purpose of remedying this tendency and collectivism, they proposed a series of measures for a repeated broad distribution of ownership over the means of production. Finally, there is an overview of this idea and its development throughout the twentieth century, finishing with contemporary distributists like John Medaille and Alan Carlson.

Anna and Tranquillo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Stow
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
English Language ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Significance

This text presents an historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion. After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors' efforts over the next thirteen days to force her conversion to Catholicism. Anna's powerful chronicle of her ordeal at the hands of authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, originally circulated by her brother Tranquillo in 1793, receives its first English-language translation along with an insightful interpretation in this book of the incident's legal and historical significance. The book's analysis of Anna's dramatic story of prejudice, injustice, resistance, and survival during her two-week imprisonment in the Roman House of Converts—and her brother's later efforts to protest state-sanctioned, religion-based abuses—provides a detailed view of the separate forces on either side of the struggle between religious and civil law in the years just prior to the massive political and social upheavals in America and Europe.

Le providentialisme d’hier à aujourd’hui

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Gareau
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Institutional Identity ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Army of Mary is a Quebec-based, conservative Roman Catholic organization that centres its religious worldview on pious devotions to the Virgin Mary, Catholic tradition and the infallibility of the Pope. In 2007, the Army of Mary was excommunicated for the heterodox doctrine of its foundress, Marie-Paule Giguère, who claims to be the incarnation of the Virgin Mary. This paper outlines how Giguère and the Army of Mary negotiate the complexities of orthodoxy and heterodoxy by basing their institutional identity on the 19th-century, clerico-conservative historiography. I argue that these religio-nationalistic constructions of French Canadian identity as morally superior offer Giguère and the Army of Mary the justification needed to forge a parallel organization to the Roman Catholic Church within a strictly eschatological paradigm.

Dante’s ‘Shameless Whore’: Sexual Imagery in Anglo-American Translations of the Comedy

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edoardo Crisafulli
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Sexual Imagery ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Anglo American

Abstract This article focuses on the strategies pursued by Anglo-American translators in dealing with Dante’s sexual imagery in the Comedy. The author attempts to explain why the original imagery — which condemns a corrupt Roman Catholic Church — has sexist connotations, and why it is reproduced in most translations in the corpus. “Fidelity” or adequacy with respect to sexual/sexist images seems striking in view of the fact that certa..n translators bowdlerize the source text or tone down the boldness of its vernacular style. It is suggested that the patriarchal nature of both the Italian and English languages explains why the use of sexist imagery is tolerated (or perhaps even encouraged) in literary texts. The findings of the analysis are then brought to bear on one important question: should the translation scholar aim to bring about “politically correct” changes in translation practice, that is, changes attenuating the offensiveness of the original language? The author advocates a descriptive approach, even though “gender and translation” seems more politicized than other areas of research within Translation Studies. The paper concludes that Translation Studies may benefit from the findings of gender studies, provided scholars in this area do not attempt to change actual translation practice and focus on the hermeneutics of translation. In fact, gender scholars can make an important contribution to Translation Studies by focusing on the ideological nature of the gendered construction of meaning.

The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria and Liturgical Inculturation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Ecclesiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Adolphus Ekedimma Amaefule
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Family Politics ◽  
Liturgical Inculturation ◽  
Entertainment Value

Abstract Beyond its entertainment value, every piece of creative literature has something more to say which reading between the lines often has a way of revealing. This is true of the novel Purple Hibiscus by the award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. While his novel says something about the family, politics, post-colonial history and religious realities such as priesthood, mission, Mary, and the Eucharist, this paper looks at what it can tell us about liturgical inculturation and its implications for the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria. It is hoped that the paper would help to continue, in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, the conversation on the nexus between Ecclesiology and Creative Literature.

scholarly journals The Balliol That Might Have Been: Pugin's Crushing Oxford Defeat

1986 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-373
Author(s):  
Leon B. Litvack
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Gothic Revival ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
The Church

Augustus Welby Pugin (Fig. 1) was the acknowledged leader of the Gothic revival in 19th-century England. Examples of his work appear everywhere in the country-everywhere, that is, except Oxford. This man was guided by strict principles of "pointed" or "Christian" architecture; however, unlike many architects of his day, Pugin's beliefs were also governed by a fervent-and sometimes oppressive-devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. He was convinced that outward signs of devotion were indispensable, and that the Church of Rome was the true expounder of Christian faith. Pugin would have loved to erect a building based on these principles in what he called "the most Catholic-looking city in England." The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the rejection of Pugin as architect for the new buildings at Balliol in 1843 was not simply a case of a Roman Catholic's working in a hostile Protestant environment; rather, he was dismissed because of the vehemence with which he pressed his own cause and derided that of others. Balliol was a great loss to Pugin; the course of events described in these pages serves as a painful reminder of overabundant zeal in pursuit of a goal.

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