Between the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, rural workers were the protagonists of a time of great social upheaval. Working in the Peasant Leagues or in the rural unions, the workers mobilized ...struggles that had the purpose of conquering rights, achieving better living and working conditions. These experiences were carefully recorded by the police authorities of the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social (DOPS), who saw in the mobilizations the development of the communist threat in Pernambuco. From police records it was possible to identify the mobilization of workers in Goiana, a municipality in the Zona da Mata Norte of Pernambuco. Based on the report of fires in the sugar cane fields belonging to Companhia Açucareira de Goiana, police investigators described in their reports the presence of “dangerous elements” that contributed to the “destabilization of order” in that municipality. At the same time, the analysis of police records brought to light the participation of protestants in these social mobilizations that, according to the researchers’ interpretation, promoted a new modality of “communist infiltration into the countryside”. Therefore, our objective rests on the investigation of Protestant participation in rural mobilizations in Goiana, emphasizing the role of these leaders and their approach to the discussion on the Social Gospel.
We explore African Pentecostal adherent practices/processes, drawing on a five-year ethnographic study located in Ghana. We conclude that the African Pentecostalism promise of material wellbeing ...dramatically transforms local practices in a manner that allows adherents to nurse hope for immense material wealth, even for those whose realities offer no hope.
Making heretics Winship, Michael P
2002., 20090209, 2009, 2002, 2002-01-01
eBook
Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented ...range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results. Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wheelwright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended Massachusetts, while more familiar "hot Protestants" like John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson are relocated in larger frameworks. The book features a striking portrayal of the minister Thomas Shepard as an angry heresy-hunting militant, helping to set the volatile terms on which the disputes were conducted and keeping the flames of contention stoked even as he ostensibly attempted to quell them.
We use data from a nationally representative survey to analyze anti-atheist sentiment in the United States in 2014, replicating analyses from a decade earlier and extending them to consider the ...factors that foster negative sentiment toward other non-religious persons. We find that anti-atheist sentiment is strong, persistent, and driven in part by moral concerns about atheists and in part by agreement with cultural values that affirm religiosity as a constitutive moral grounding of citizenship and national identity. Moral concerns about atheists also spill over to shape attitudes toward those who are spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and influence evaluations of the recent decline in religious identification. Americans have more positive views of SBNRs than of atheists, but a plurality of Americans still negatively evaluate the increase in the percentage of Americans who claim no religious identification (nones). Our analyses show the continuing centrality of religiously rooted moral boundary-making in constituting cultural membership in the American context.
The introduction of the Reformation in the Quedlinburg Imperial Abbey is examined in this work in a comprehensive manner on the macro, meso, and micro levels. The complex interplay between the ...Princess-Abbess and the Emperor, the Empire and its institutions, other imperial estates, the protector, the Quedlinburg council, the clergy, and the subjects is considered. The Reformation 'from below' by the subjects is combined with the Reformations 'from above' by the Princess-Abbess and her protector in a new, multi-perspective way. Special focus is placed on the 'Reformation Abbess' Anna II, a Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode. The work highlights how she managed the opportunities and risks associated with the Reformation and examines various aspects of her rule, such as her court, titles, networks within the chapter, and her involvement in the Imperial Diets.
THEOLOGY IN DIVISION East, Brad
First things (New York, N.Y.),
04/2023
Journal Article
Even a whiff of sacred tradition, magisterial authority, patristic doctrine, or medieval piety stinks to high heaven, and just about everyone has a nose for it. (A third, Ephraim Radner, is a regular ...contributor to these pages; I'll let him speak for himself.) Here is how Jenson opens the first volume of his Systematic Theology, published in 1997: ...theology may be impossible in the situation of a divided church, its proper agent not being extant-unless, of course, one is willing to say that a particular confessional or jurisdictional body simply is the one church. ...the context and audience of theology is nothing less than the communion of saints. In it the future pope, in conversation with the work of Lutheran theologian Oscar Cullmann, offers a profound reflection on unity and disunity between Protestants and Catholics.
RESUMO O artigo aborda o tema da laicização do Estado a partir das ações e dos discursos do missionário protestante George William Butler (1853-1919) nos primeiros dias após a proclamação da ...República. O objetivo é avaliar como esse personagem vivenciou e participou desse processo. Analisando seus relatórios, os conflitos políticos locais e as relações do missionário com agentes que elaboraram uma lei de separação Igreja-Estado no Maranhão, sua vida surge como uma via de acesso para o entendimento deste processo e dos sentidos que os protestantes lhe desejavam imprimir. Assim, destaca-se a importância da análise micro-histórica para se perceberem os indivíduos não apenas como receptores de transformações macrossociais, mas como agentes dessas mudanças.
ABSTRACT The article addresses the theme of the laicization of the State based on the actions and speeches of the Protestant missionary George William Butler (1853-1919) in the first days after the proclamation of the Republic. The objective is to evaluate how this character experienced and participated in this process. By analyzing his reports, the local political conflicts and the missionary’s relations with agents who drafted a law of church-state separation in Maranhão, his life appears as a form of access to understand this process and the meanings that Protestants wanted to imprint on it. Thus, the importance of micro-historical analysis stands out to perceive individuals not only as receivers of macro-social transformations, but as agents of these changes.
This article proposes a theory of post neo-Protestantism highlighting the key relationships maintained by this new postmodern manner of thinking and living religion with the medialization, that is to ...say, with the ‘mediatization of everything’ as a model of public communication developed in favor of broadband internet, wireless internet or social media. In this perspective, it is shown that post neo-Protestantism is basically the virtualization of neo-Protestantism still clinging to modernity and the communicative individual pragmatics of this virtualization now inescapably linked to new media.
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