Mexican Views on Rural Education, 1900-1910

1963 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
James Presley
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Rural Mexico ◽  
Education In Mexico ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

Among the numerous failures of the Porfirio Díaz government was the lack of education in rural Mexico. Statistics reveal only a fraction of the problem. In 1910 there were 11,750,996 illiterates in the population of 15,103,542, or a total of 3,352,546 who could read or write. Illiteracy may have been even more rampant than these figures indicate. Most of Mexico was rural, and most of the effective educational efforts were in urban areas.The question arises as to whether the leading influential groups in Mexico gave serious attention to the problem. The purpose of this article is to examine the views of five important groups or persons during that period just preceding the revolution, to determine the extent of importance assigned rural education in Mexico. The viewpoints are those of the Díaz administration, the Labor group under Ricardo Flores Magón, the Catholic Church, Francisco I. Madero, and General Bernardo Reyes.

The Church-State Dispute Over Education in Mexico from Carranza to Cárdenas

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Stanley E. Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Military Commander ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Education In Mexico ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

The delegate from Tabasco definitely believed that the destiny of Mexico was at stake. At President Carranza’s behest an assembly had convened at Querétaro charged with the duty of drafting a constitution which would embody the ideals of the Revolutionary element. Although he was still a young man in his early thirties, the delegate, Francisco Múgica, was a former military commander and governor of Tabasco, and he now occupied the strategic post of chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Reform whose task was to recommend the necessary modifications of the proposed constitution. It was December 13, 1916, and the committee’s report on a key article of the future constitution was being discussed. Múgica, the chief spokesman for the radical majority at the convention, rose to defend his views. The discussion of this particular article, he declared, was “the most solemn moment of the revolution. [No other moment] has been so great, so important, so solemn. … [The issue is] nothing less than that of the future of the nation, the future of our young people. …” The article which prompted Múgica’s dramatic remarks engendered one of the longest and most heated debates of the convention, and in the ensuing two decades it formed the basis of an important area of conflict between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church. This was Article 3 which deals with education.

The Catholic Church and the Revolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Cardenal ◽  
Donald D. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

The Catholic Church and the Closed Corporate Community During the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954

1995 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Blake D. Pattridge
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

Scholars have debated the effects of the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954), i.e. the political and social changes carried out during the decade, on the closed corporate community. Many scholars, including the anthropologists Carol Smith and Ralph Beals, have looked at the political pressures and changes during the Revolution in attempts to explain the decline of the traditional community during the decade. Meanwhile, the historian Jim Handy has challenged the common political explanations for the downfall of the community and questioned the degree to which the communities are “closed” and “corporate.” Most scholars agree, however, that the revolutionary period witnessed a breakdown in the traditional village structures.

France

2021 ◽  
pp. 616-633
Author(s):  
Blandine Chelini-Pont
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
French Population ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

For fourteen centuries, French territory was an assemblage of Catholic and monarchical interests; the result is a deep-seated Catholic imprint which endures to this day though more so in some parts of France than in others. After the Revolution, France experimented with various forms of government which promoted a progressive separation between state and religion (meaning the Catholic Church). This was a long, difficult, and at times painful process resulting eventually in a Republic, in which the notion of laïcité became ever more important. Since the 1970s, the French population has become both increasingly indifferent to religion and increasingly diverse. Currently 40 per cent of the population has no religion, and Islam constitutes an important presence in the country. The growth of Islam has provoked a variety of reactions: accommodation, restriction, suspicion, and resentment.

A ELEVAÇÃO DO HOMEM RURAL: institutos de educação rural e a cooperação da Misereor

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS ORESTES FRANZEN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The State ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Catholic Church

 O artigo analisa a gênese de implantação dos Institutos de Educação Rural no Rio Grande do Sul através da cooperação da Misereor na década de 1970. A proposta é de correlacionar realidades locais diante de uma conjuntura mais abrangente que condicionou a postura social da Igreja Católica bem como influenciou nas demandas do espaço rural do estado. Defende-se a ideia de que os Institutos de Educação Rural representaram uma proposta de modernização da agricultura sob a tutela do catolicismo.  Palavras-chave: Misereor. Catolicismo. FAG. Instituto de Educação Rural.THE ELEVATION OF RURAL MAN:  institutes of rural education and the cooperation of MisereorAbstract: The article analyzes the genesis of implantation of the Institutes of Rural Education in Rio Grande do Sul through the cooperation of Misereor in the 1970s. The proposal is to correlate local realities in the face of a more extensive context that conditioned the social position of the Catholic Church as well as influenced the demands of the rural area of the state. It ´s defended the idea that the Institutes of Rural Education represented a proposal of modernization of the agriculture under the tutelage of the Catholicism.Keywords: Misereor. Catholicism. FAG. Institut of Rural Education.LA ELEVACIÓN DEL HOMBRE RURAL:  institutos de educación rural y la cooperación de Misereor  Resumen: El artá­culo analiza la génesis de la aplicación de los Institutos de Educación Rural en Rio Grande do Sul a través de la cooperación de Misereor en la década de 1970. La propuesta consiste en correlacionar las realidades locales que enfrentan un contexto más amplio que condicionó la posición social de la Iglesia Católica e influyó en las demandas de espacio de estado rural. Se defiende la idea de que los Institutos de Educación Rural representaban una propuesta de modernización de la agricultura bajo la tutela del catolicismo.Palabras clave: Misereor. Catolicismo. FAG. Instituto de Educación Rural.

The Origins of St. Gregory’s, Paris

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony F. Allison
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Other ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Small College ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

St. Gregory’s was a small college belonging to the English secular clergy founded at Paris in the late seventeenth century. Its main purpose was to enable suitable ecclesiastics who had completed their training at Douai or the other colleges abroad to pursue advanced studies at the Sorbonne before working on the mission in England. Its founders hoped it would serve to produce a corps of highly qualified men to fill the leading administrative and teaching posts in the Catholic Church in England. It survived until 1786 when financial difficulties forced it to close—temporarily, as was at first thought. During the Revolution it suffered the fate of the other English Catholic institutions in France, and it never, in fact, reopened. Among the documents that have survived from its archives is a Register Book covering the whole period of its existence from its first beginnings in 1667 until it closed down over a century later. This Register Book, which records the arrival and departure of students, the stages in their university career, their promotion to holy orders, deaths occurring at the college, and occasional memoranda of events affecting the life of the community, was edited for the Catholic Record Society in 1917 by the late Monsignor Edwin Burton.

The Jubilee of Bishop Kyle

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Northern District ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
The Catholic Church

Celebrations surrounding the golden jubilee of Bishop James Kyle's priesthood in 1862 generated a considerable volume of documentary evidence, mostly in the form of letters. The Northern District of the Catholic Church in Scotland represented a rural tradition from penal times. Its priests considered themselves to be gentlemen, though impoverished, serving congregations different from the mainly Irish ones in urban areas. The article is, by implication, about clergy culture as well as clergy finance. Bishop Kyle's base was at the archival treasure-house of Preshome near Fochabers in the Enzie district where an underground practice of religion had been maintained since the seventeenth century. Most of the Northerners (strikingly young by today's standards, and attention is drawn the number of early deaths among priests of that day) had spent time at Preshome at the start of their careers. The focal point of the jubilee was a dinner at Blairs College, Scotland's junior seminary. The focal point of the dinner was a pastiche of ‘Tullochgorum’, described by Robert Burns as Scotland's finest song. In it a young priest entertained his colleagues while teasing the more senior of them in convivial fashion.

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