Power, Inequality, and Terrains of Conflict

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-245
Author(s):  
Savio Abreu
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Power Inequality ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter deals with the exclusivist and fundamentalist notions of the Pentecostal movement, and the resultant terrains of conflict in Goan society. It describes how the Pentecostal–Charismatic movement by entering in the religious sphere of Goa has attempted to reform Church ritual and challenge the traditions of the Catholic Church as well as promote an evangelistic agenda of preaching and proselytizing. The resultant contestations and conflicts with both the Catholic and Hindu communities are then explored in the chapter by studying specific instances of conflict in Sao Joao de Areal and Siolim. These contestations occur in a rapidly changing Goan society in different spaces such as social, spiritual or metaphysical, and physical. The chapter argues how neo-Pentecostalism in Goa is characterized as fundamentalist and how its image of a militant Church with exclusivist views on salvation and other religions has led to the churning up of the religious space of Goa.

The Pentecostal Movement in the Catholic Church

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
James T. Maguire ◽  
Edward D. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Catholic Church

Catholic vs. Pentecostal Missiologies

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-345
Author(s):  
Ralph Del Colle
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Spirit Baptism ◽  
Catholic Perspective ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church and Classical Pentecostalism have been in official ecumenical dialogue for several decades. Although their differing sense of mission has often been the source of conflict, a more fruitful dialogue on mission may be advanced by a conscious Catholic reception of the pneumatological significance of Pentecostal Spirit baptism. After exploring Pentecostal mission statements and recent Pentecostal missiologies, points of convergence are identified from a Catholic perspective in recent magisterial statements on mission. By acknowledgement of the “sign” value of the Pentecostal movement, the Catholic Church is called to a greater fidelity to mission in the power of the Spirit.

Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a perverse religious organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Eduardo Acuña Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conversion Event ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

The origins of the Catholic Social Guild in Scotland: ‘We have not attacked the Socialists professedly’

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Potocki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Social Message ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Catholic Church

The activities of John Wheatley's Catholic Socialist Society have been analysed in terms of liberating Catholics from clerical dictation in political matters. Yet, beyond the much-discussed clerical backlash against Wheatley, there has been little scholarly attention paid to a more constructive response offered by progressive elements within the Catholic Church. The discussion that follows explores the development of the Catholic social movement from 1906, when the Catholic Socialist Society was formed, up until 1918 when the Catholic Social Guild, an organisation founded by the English Jesuit Charles Plater, had firmly established its local presence in the west of Scotland. This organisation played an important role in the realignment of Catholic politics in this period, and its main activity was the dissemination of the Church's social message among the working-class laity. The Scottish Catholic Church, meanwhile, thanks in large part to Archbishop John Aloysius Maguire of Glasgow, became more amenable to social reform and democracy.

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