...Lula acquired a remarkably durable charisma during the titanic battles of 1978–80. Under his leadership, ABC’s peons achieved an incredible mobilizing force backed by the Catholic Church leading to the radicalism of the Brazilian New Unionism and the founding of the Lula’s Workers’ Party in 1980...

... the new era under U.S. rule, paying particular attention to the tensions that had been brewing on the island prior to 1898. The chapter highlights the impact of the Americans' arrival on women, the Catholic Church, and labor movement, as well as Puerto Rico's political landscape. It looks at the first two...

... of a moralistic anticommunism that would gain ascendancy in dictatorial Brazil. Antimodernism Catholic Church Estado Novo Fascism Masculinity Nationalism Religion Vargas Getúlio Dornelles Youth AIB Brazilian Integralist Action Brazilian Integralist Action AIB Eugenics Integralists Mainwaring Scott...

... to the king of Spain. The new governor, Francois Louis Héctor, baron de Carondelet, expanded military operations and cracked down on potential slave revolts. The Catholic Church in New Orleans had its own upheavals. Antonio de Sedella returned to New Orleans in 1795 and Cirilo of Barcelona was later sent back...

... parenthood included providing children with material goods, education, and spiritual values. Birth control organizations Catholic Church Families Catholic Church and Family planning 1950s and Landázuri Ricketts Juan Population growth 1960s and Poverty Contraception Davis Kingsley Ecuador Gordon...

... and understand their world. It also describes the role of the Catholic Church and the school system in determining the character of New York's postwar neighborhoods. Finally, it explains how these differences between Jews and Catholics shaped each community's distinct outlook on ideas such as political dissent...

...With the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thought, worship, and actions of Catholics worldwide was enormous. Benefiting from a half century of insights gained since Vatican II ended, this volume...

... as well as of men, or how they would write about Puritans if they explored the lives of women as well as of men. Furthermore, the book examines how historians would tell the story of Judaism, witchcraft, Mormonism, the origins of the Catholic Church in the United States, or the women's rights movement...

... of laywomen of African descent in the emergence of an Afro-Catholic community. From among this larger group, it looks at Felicité Girodeau and Henriette Delille, two free women of color who played key roles in building the Catholic Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, especially Afro-Catholicism...

...Chapter one analyses institutional responses to interfaith marriage, looking closely at the responses of Reform Judaism, the American Catholic Church, and the Protestant mainline. It reveals that while all three traditions framed the problem of intermarriage in theological terms, their different...

...This chapter examines the interaction of the revolutionary state and the Catholic Church, especially over issues that concerned the control of women's bodies, families, marriage, divorce, and burials. While at first glance religious conservatives and revolutionaries appear to have been...

... income for the mission house, support the temporal and spiritual goals of the religious congregation, and extend the influence of the American Catholic Church. Focusing on the Presentation Sisters of North Dakota, the chapter demonstrates that nuns used the shortage of employable females...

... supporters, Catholic Church activists and religious leaders, to explore the weakening of domestic farmworkers' lateral class attachment to braceros. Agency Avitia Ramón Barbershops peluquerías Bracero program 1942–64 Class DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation Farmworkers workers Growers Labor Nation nation...

... Rican man-gods, along with their complex and ambivalent relationship with the Catholic Church. Committee for Spiritist Defense and Propaganda Mangods Manso Estévez Juan Matienzo Cintrón Rosendo Spiritism and blacks Spiritist Federation of Puerto Rico Elenita Vuestra Madre Hermana Elenita de Jesús...

... States in support of opposition underground in Poland. Finally, it discusses the role of Radio Free Europe and the Catholic Church within Poland, together with the efforts of the Polish United Worker's Party (PZPR) to liberalize and reform the system. Davis John Meehan Francis Political prisoners Step...

...This chapter discusses how the Catholic clergy and sisters became the leaders and role models of the Irish community. The vast majority of Irish Confederates whether in military service or on the home front, were Roman Catholics. The position of the Catholic Church on the Confederacy...

.... Latinos emerged as new social subjects by harnessing the traditions in this working-class neighborhood, the historical home to generations of European immigrants to the city. Paramount among these traditions were those of the Catholic Church. Atemajac Mexico Chicago Children Guadalajara Mexico Home...

...In the 1940s and 1950s, the Catholic Church enforced a hierarchical religious culture that emphasized the virtue of obedience of authority, rather than skepticism of it. In postwar New York City, parochial schools socialized students from an early age to respect religious, parental, and civic...

... their histories and present-day stories. The book argues that the invocation of laws by these related communities led to the emergence of two different identities: one indigenous (Xocó Indian) and the other quilombo (descendants of a fugitive African slave community). With the help of the Catholic Church...

...This chapter discusses anti-Catholicism in America, the roots of which stretch back to late antique Europe. Religious movements born in Europe and the Mediterranean that challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church or its teachings were common in the first few centuries after the Emperor...