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Protecting Health and the Catholic Family: Catholic Women’s League and Preventive Medicine Clinics for Mothers and Infants in Belgium (1945–1975)
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Juliette Masquelier
Social History of Medicine, hkaf004, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf004
Published: 18 April 2025
... the League succeeded in maintaining the presence of volunteers by creating new social services and missions when the medical and religious missions of clinics were changing in the early 1960s. infant welfare motherhood catholicism volunteers women On 5 December 1958, Miss Procureur, a delegate...
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Cutting Bodies, Reaping Souls: Catholic Medical Missionaries between Rome and East Africa around 1700
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Brendan Röder
Social History of Medicine, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2024, Pages 183–203, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad051
Published: 07 August 2023
..., that they used the acquired skills during their travels and that medicine was crucial to Catholic strategies of spiritual conquest. medical missions early modern Catholicism Ethiopia Sudan Egypt Christian missions have long been a fruitful research field when it comes to investigating the relationship...
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Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland
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Agata Ignaciuk and Agnieszka Kościańska
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 249–269, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad020
Published: 17 April 2023
... Poland history of gynecology Catholicism anti-abortion activism gender history National Science Center, Poland 2019/33/B/HS3/01068 In 1982, the Polish Ministry of Health and Social Security commissioned two short films on the preparation for childbirth and family life. The director of both films...
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Locating the Backstage of Victorian Religion: Spaces of Irish Catholicism
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Sarah Roddy
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 28, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 554–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac082
Published: 14 December 2022
... histories of sport, art, and science increasingly use ‘Victorian’ in a sense that recognizes the interconnectedness of these islands and of the wider empire, 13 we argue that developments in Irish Catholicism are not only better examined and understood within a wider Victorian context...
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Wordsworth and the World: Teaching Postsecular Romanticism in the Humanities
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Michael Tomko
Literature and Theology, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 377–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac028
Published: 28 September 2022
... discourses of the age—a romantic revision that reopens horizons for both teaching and scholarship. Romanticism William Wordsworth Theology and Literature Pedagogy Interdisciplinary Studies Roman Catholicism Email: [email protected] The plaintive cry of Wordsworth’s forerunning search...
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‘Medical Popes’ and ‘Vaccination Protestants’: Anti-Catholicism and the Campaign against Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England
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Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 542–558, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac044
Published: 05 June 2022
... rhetoric in the speeches and literature which its leaders produced. A significant proportion of these leaders were drawn from the community of medical dissent. These individuals lived through a period when anti-Catholicism began to wane as a political force in England. Confronted with the new phenomenon...
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Reconnecting Religion and Community in a Small City: How Urban Amenities Afford Religious Amenities
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Audra Dugandzic
Sociology of Religion, Volume 83, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 434–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srab059
Published: 29 December 2021
... capital place Catholicism Center for the Study of Religion in Society de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture University of Notre Dame 10.13039/100008109 Sociologists of religion have been challenged recently to take seriously the embodied and material aspects of social life ( Ammerman...
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The Effect of a Priest-Led Intervention on the Choice and Preference of Soda Beverages: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Catholic Parishes
J Jaime Miranda and others
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 54, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 436–446, https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaz060
Published: 16 December 2019
... [email protected] A pragmatic single low-intensity short-duration one-off sermon given by a priest during a church mass service has an immediate effect in reducing the choice of soda beverages over water Behavioral economics Carbonated beverages Catholicism Consumer behavior Faith based organizations...
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Natural Law, Catholicism, and the Protestant Critique: Why We Are Really Not That Far Apart
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Francis J Beckwith
Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 25, Issue 2, August 2019, Pages 154–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbz001
Published: 01 July 2019
... that the primary concerns raised by Evangelicals about natural law reasoning are, ironically, concerns expressed by and intrinsic to the natural law tradition itself. To show this, I address two types of Protestant critics: (1) the Frustrated Fellow Traveler and (2) the Solo Scripturist. Catholicism...
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Making Sense of Stigmata: How Victorians Explained the Wounds of Christ
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Kristof Smeyers
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 227–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcy071
Published: 19 February 2019
... mysticism religion Catholicism science revival In the summer of 1859 the fever of evangelical revivalism took Ulster, Ireland, by storm. It came with a wide variety of unusual phenomena – particularly affecting Presbyterians, who comprised the largest Protestant denomination in the region. 1...
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Somatic Coordination: An Ethnography of Religious Entrainment in Christian and Neo-Pagan Rituals
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Beth L Dougherty
Sociology of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 1, Spring 2018, Pages 108–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srx054
Published: 14 November 2017
... of what constitutes ritual efficacy is examined. I argue that it is in the points where participant and organizer experiences meet or fail to meet, that the boundary work of coordinators in ritual becomes essential. ecumenism embodiment new age/paganism/neo-paganism ritual Catholicism Unitarian...
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The Spiritual Significance of Property and Place in Monastic Resistance to the Reformation
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Ryan Sayre Patrico
German History, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1 June 2017, Pages 187–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx044
Published: 07 April 2017
... of their convent’s founders and benefactors. This article therefore explores early modern monasticism’s emphasis on the spiritual significance of property and place and how the Reformation challenged that belief. Reformation monasticism property early modern Europe Catholicism The Protestant religious...
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The Town Chronicle of Johannes Hass: History Writing and Divine Intervention in the Early Sixteenth Century
Martin Christ
German History, Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw141
Published: 21 December 2016
... decades, confessional boundaries were fluid. Johannes Hass is a fascinating case study because his re-interpretation of Catholicism shows how even those Catholics who were explicitly critical of the Wittenberg Reformation were influenced by it, and adopted some of its elements into their religiosity...
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The Catholic Enlightenment: Some Reflections on Recent Research
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Ritchie Robertson
German History, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 630–645, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw120
Published: 17 November 2016
... and Jewish figures of the eighteenth century found a tenable compromise between tradition and Enlightenment. Benedictines Catholic Enlightenment celibacy Jesuits monasteries Reform Catholicism The phrase ‘Catholic Enlightenment’ can still sound like an oxymoron. Until relatively recently, many...
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Raúl Necochea López. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
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Jeannie Samuel
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2017, Pages 374–377, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrw035
Published: 24 October 2016
... email: [email protected] 2016 abortion Catholicism eugenics liberation theology population control Raúl Necochea brings readers through a hundred years of family planning in Peru. Moving away from a more standard focus on demographic transition theory, he draws on a range of other...
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Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective
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Raul Necochea
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 71, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 495–497, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrw021
Published: 04 September 2016
... by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2016 Catholicism environmentalism fascism miscegenation neo-Lamarckism puericulture Eugenics does not cease to fascinate and, as in this case, surprise students of the late nineteenth...
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Saint Peter's Leaky Boat: Falling Intergenerational Persistence among U.S.-Born Catholics since 1974
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Michael Hout
Sociology of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, SPRING 2016, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srv057
Published: 10 January 2016
... Catholics increasingly described themselves as “not strong” in their attachment to Catholicism over the last decade ( Schwadel 2013 ). 6 Overall, religious strength changed little among Americans, even as the percentage with no religious preference rose, so the Catholics stood out in his...
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Guilt, Persecution, and Resurrection in Nagasaki: Atomic Memories and the Urakami Catholic Community
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Gwyn MCCLELLAND
Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2015, Pages 233–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyv018
Published: 03 July 2015
...-Christians’, who had returned to Catholicism following Japan’s abolition of the anti-Christian edict in the early Meiji period, were among those who lost the most upon the scorched earth around Urakami, on 9 August 1945. Urakami Cathedral, which belonged to this community, is a different symbol from...
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Against ‘Sentimental’ Piety: The Search for a New Culture of Emotions in Interwar German Catholicism
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Andrea Meissner
German History, Volume 32, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 393–413, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghu064
Published: 11 August 2014
... the backdrop of masculinization processes within Catholicism, which were typically built on a gendered emotionology. The efforts to reinstate the liturgy as the key practice of worship, and the verdicts against the ‘sentimental’ ultramontane style of devotion, together indicate a shift in the forms of piety...
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Lost in Translation: Spiritual Assessment and the Religious Tradition
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Emily K. Trancik
Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 19, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 282–298, https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbt029
Published: 02 December 2013
... are psychological measures and are not suitable for spiritual care for patients of faith traditions like Roman Catholicism, for they do not do justice to the Catholic theological and nonpsychological understanding of illness, suffering, and sin. I conclude that these tools should not be used in clinical practice...
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