Charity as Social Justice

The Lay Saint ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 47-82
Author(s):  
Mary Harvey Doyno
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Franciscan Order ◽  
Charity Work

This chapter argues that during the thirteenth century, and contemporaneous with the rise of the Franciscan Order in communal Italy, the path to sanctity that remained a true lay option began to veer in a new direction. In Raimondo of Piacenza's vita, the lay saint's charity work became the work of social justice. This new paradigm of an ideal lay life, which can be called the communal lay saint, came to its fullest expression once civic authorities became the primary patrons of contemporary lay saints' cults. As merchants and artisans came to dominate civic governments, the pious layman's commitment to serving his civic lay population through works of charity found a receptive audience. In these cults, the penitential commitment of an extraordinary layman was once again presented as transforming him into a living miracle worker. But this time, the lay saint's charisma was not focused on healing a broken church but rather on identifying, soothing, and sometimes fixing the economic and social inequalities of a commune.

Prisoners’ Families and the Problem of Social Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Condry
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Equal Citizenship

This chapter explores the wide-ranging impact of imprisonment upon the lives of the families of prisoners and the entrenched social inequalities that this both generates and reinforces. It considers the concept of social justice and whether it is useful to this enterprise. The chapter furthermore questions why the families of prisoners are faced with many difficulties. It applies theories of social justice to the consequences experienced by families of prisoners and asks whether or not those consequences are consistent with the principles of these theories. In a democratic society that claims to be organised around principles of equal citizenship, the chapter argues that there is a need to fully consider how and why families of prisoners (as innocent citizens) are affected by punishment inflicted by the state.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the calls of humanistic social work: Exploring the developmental-clinical social work concerns of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110079
Author(s):  
Robert K Chigangaidze
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Any health outbreak is beyond the biomedical approach. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a calamitous need to address social inequalities prevalent in the global health community. Au fait with this, the impetus of this article is to explore the calls of humanistic social work in the face of the pandemic. It calls for the pursuit of social justice during the pandemic and after. It also calls for a holistic service provision, technological innovation and stewardship. Wrapping up, it challenges the global community to rethink their priorities – egotism or altruism. It emphasizes the ultimate way forward of addressing the social inequalities.

scholarly journals The Franciscans and Yaylaq Khatun

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Szilvia Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Franciscan Order

This study explores two issues. The first topic, as the title suggests, deals with the appearance of the Franciscan Order and its expansion at the expense of the Dominicans on the southern Russian steppe in the second half of the thirteenth century. The second question is tied to one of the successes of the Franciscans: the conversion to Christianity of one of the wives of Nogay, the khanmaker, the powerful lord of the western regions of the Golden Horde. I will reconstruct what can be ascertained about this khatun, based on Latin, Muslim and Byzantine sources.

scholarly journals Eroded Rule of Law, Endemic Violence and Social Injustice in Brazil

Lexonomica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-242
Author(s):  
Mitja Kovač ◽  
Marcela Neves Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Weak Rule

Modern Brazil is plagued by social and economic inequalities, endemic violence, crime, and a weak rule of law. Once these narratives become dependent on each other, all aspects must be worked on to change the scenario the country is facing: insecurity, fear and a lack of opportunities. This paper argues that the unprecedented rise of social injustice in Brazil is not the result of short-term measures but is part of its history marked by economic and social inequalities extending from its colonial past until today and the deficient policies on crime that emerged in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the current massive incarceration, overcrowding of prisons combined with the absence of human living conditions is turning the prison system in Brazil into a gigantic, perpetual school of crime. Investment in education that directly helps to lower the crime rate must be aligned with a new, less repressive and more inclusive punitive policy so as to induce criminals not to return to their unlawful ways. It is suggested that Brazil can only properly develop if efficient legal institutions, the rule of law, and criminal sanctioning based on the principles of social justice are available to all citizens.

scholarly journals Social justice, diversity and leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Rachel Tribe ◽  
Deanne Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Discriminatory Practice ◽  
Counselling Psychology

This paper will discuss what is meant by social justice in relation to counselling psychology specifically and psychology generally within the UK, as well as briefly considering social justice in the wider context. It will discuss if there is a role for counselling psychologists and psychology in promoting social justice through challenging social inequalities and promoting anti-discriminatory practice. It will review the role of counselling psychology in potentially foregrounding inclusive practice which celebrates diversity and provides leadership on this issue. It will then discuss the possible skills and theories psychologists have at their disposal to undertake work which promotes social justice and equality and takes into consideration human rights. It will provide a range of examples of where psychologists have undertaken social justice work using their training and skills and provided leadership in a range of contexts outside the consulting room. The paper will argue that taking an active leadership role to encourage the promotion of social justice is at the centre of our work as a profession, a division and as individual counselling psychologists. Counselling psychology has traditionally put individual therapeutic work at the centre of training and whilst this work is important, this paper will argue that there are numerous other roles and tasks which psychologists could usefully be involved with. These would help ensure that the requirements of service users/experts by experience (EBE) are met and that the context of their lives are foregrounded at the micro (individual) as well as the macro (contextual) level. This may require counselling psychologists to take a wider holistic or systemic perspective and understanding, advocating or intervening in relation to the structural and contextual issues which may give rise to psychological distress, and thereby promote social justice.

Social Justice and Advocacy in University-Based Play Therapy Training Clinics

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-193
Author(s):  
Emily C. Brown ◽  
Emily Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Play Therapy ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Play Therapists ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Training Clinics

This chapter examines how university training programs and clinics can help play therapists develop social justice advocacy competency. Developing social justice advocacy can help play therapists understand social inequalities and oppressive systems, experience empathy with clients, and integrate advocacy action into their work. Training programs can help facilitate social justice advocacy for students through curriculum focus, service learning, and continuing education opportunities that promote awareness and empathy. Play therapy services offered in university clinics also offer opportunities for interns to increase understanding of social justice advocacy through client interactions and clinical supervision. Clinic directors promote social justice advocacy through managing just organization procedures and coordinating advocacy and outreach initiatives.

Social Justice and Advocacy in University-Based Play Therapy Training Clinics

2021 ◽  
pp. 238-255
Author(s):  
Emily C. Brown ◽  
Emily Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Play Therapy ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Play Therapists ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Training Clinics

This chapter examines how university training programs and clinics can help play therapists develop social justice advocacy competency. Developing social justice advocacy can help play therapists understand social inequalities and oppressive systems, experience empathy with clients, and integrate advocacy action into their work. Training programs can help facilitate social justice advocacy for students through curriculum focus, service learning, and continuing education opportunities that promote awareness and empathy. Play therapy services offered in university clinics also offer opportunities for interns to increase understanding of social justice advocacy through client interactions and clinical supervision. Clinic directors promote social justice advocacy through managing just organization procedures and coordinating advocacy and outreach initiatives.

Richard Rufus of Cornwall (d. after 1259)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rega Wood
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Franciscan Order ◽  
Aristotelian Metaphysics

A thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian, Rufus was among the first Western medieval authors to study Aristotelian metaphysics, physics and epistemology; his lectures on Aristotle’s Physics are the earliest known surviving Western medieval commentary. In 1238, after writing treatises against Averroes and lecturing on Aristotle – at greatest length on the Metaphysics – he joined the Franciscan Order, left Paris and became a theologian. Rufus’ lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences were the first presented by an Oxford bachelor of theology. Greatly influenced by Robert Grosseteste, Rufus’ Oxford lectures were devoted in part to a refutation of Richard Fishacre, the Dominican master who first lectured on the Sentences at Oxford. Though much more sophisticated philosophically than Fishacre, Rufus defended the more exclusively biblical theology recommended by Grosseteste against Fishacre’s more modern scholasticism. Rufus’ Oxford lectures were employed as a source by Bonaventure, whose lectures on the Sentences were vastly influential. Returning to Paris shortly after Bonaventure lectured there, Rufus took Bonaventure’s lectures as a model for his own Parisian Sentences commentary. Rufus’ Paris lectures made him famous. According to his enemy Roger Bacon, when he returned to Oxford after 1256 as the Franciscan regent master, his influence increased steadily. It was at its height forty years later in the 1290s, when John Duns Scotus was a bachelor of theology. Early versions of many important positions developed by Duns Scotus can be found in Rufus’ works.

Future Directions for Incorporating Intersectionality Into Quantitative Population Health Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madina Agénor
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
One Step

Intersectionality, an analytical approach rooted in Black feminist theory and praxis, has become more widely used in population health research. The majority of quantitative population health studies have used intersectionality as a theoretical framework to investigate how multiple social identities rather than social inequalities simultaneously influence health inequities. Although a few researchers have developed methods to assess how multiple forms of interpersonal discrimination shape the health of multiply marginalized groups and others have called for the use of multilevel modeling to examine the role of intersecting dimensions of structural discrimination, critical qualitative, multidisciplinary, and community-based participatory research approaches are needed to more fully incorporate the core ideas of intersectionality—including social inequality, relationality, complexity, power, social context, and social justice—into quantitative population health research studies or programs. By more comprehensively capturing and addressing the influence of intersecting structural factors, social and historical processes, and systems of power and oppression on the health of multiply marginalized individuals, quantitative population health researchers will more fully leverage intersectionality’s transformational power and move one step closer to achieving social justice and health equity.

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