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Full-Text Articles in Cultural History
Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala, Antonio D. Sison
Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala, Antonio D. Sison
Journal of Global Catholicism
A consideration of how the dynamics surrounding Manila's Black Nazarene express crucial themes in the Filipino psyche. The article specifically addresses the importance of "felt-experience" (pagdama) in devotion to the Black Nazarene as well as its connections to indigenous Filipino religion.
Catholicism In Context: Religious Practice In Latin America, Gustavo Morello Sj
Catholicism In Context: Religious Practice In Latin America, Gustavo Morello Sj
Journal of Global Catholicism
A critical problem to study Catholicism in the context of Latin American modernity, is that the conceptual tools we use to study religion were designed to understand the transformations that modernity provoked in European religiosity. Studies on the religion of Latin Americans have largely explored the religiosity of the population through surveys that measure attendance, adherence and affiliation. While some anthropologists have explored religious practices among particular groups, we do not know how ordinary, urban Latin Americans practice religion. To fill this gap, a group of researchers from Boston College, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Catholic University of Córdoba, and …
Fraternity, Martyrdom And Peace In Burundi: The Forty Servants Of God Of Buta, Jodi Mikalachki
Fraternity, Martyrdom And Peace In Burundi: The Forty Servants Of God Of Buta, Jodi Mikalachki
Journal of Global Catholicism
During Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, students at Buta Minor Seminary were ordered at gunpoint to separate by ethnicity—Hutus over here, Tutsis over there! They chose instead to join hands and affirm their common identity as children of God. The forty students killed were quickly proclaimed martyrs of fraternity. Their costly solidarity defused the cry for reprisals and continues to inspire Burundians and others on the path of reconciliation. Drawing on fifty interviews with survivors, parents of martyrs, neighbors, religious leaders and other Burundian intellectuals, this essay examines how Burundian Catholics understand the significance of the Buta martyrdom to their …
Editor's Introduction, Mathew N. Schmalz
Editor's Introduction, Mathew N. Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
No abstract provided.
Amjambo Africa! (December 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (December 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Film: .......................................2/3
Le Intersection/Le Carrefour Zamzam Elmoge Black Owned Maine/Amjambo Holiday Gift Guide. ...........4/5
Editorial......................................6
Healthcare in Chad ...................8
French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili
Poetry: My version of the American dream ......................13
Hermenegildo Paulo and Mathilde Micomyiza...............14
Diversity Calendar project.....16
Finance/All about cars............18
Columns. ............................18/19
Preble Street • MIRC • ILAP Maine Equal Justice • IntWork
5 New Mainers celebrate holidays...............................20-29
French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili
Community Health Workers/CHOWs....................28
New Voices...............................29
Rupal Ramesh Shah • Roseline Souebele
Humanitarian crisis in Maine.31
Amjambo Africa! (November 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (November 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Afghanistan................................2
Anti-racism. ...............................3
Wabanaki Alliance. ...................5
Allan Monga. .............................6
Translations .......9-13, 30/31, 33
French • Kinyarwanda
Portuguese • Somali
Spanish • Swahili
Africa/COVID.........................13
Banyamulenge....................13/14
Burundi/UN. ...........................14
Tigray........................................14
Rebels........................................14
Market Basket..........................15
Azerbaijani women.................18
Health & Wellness. ............20-29
Diabetes | COVID In English & translation
Columns .......................19, 32/33
Maine Equal Justice
ILAP – IntWork
Let’s Talk • Beautiful Blackbird
New Voices ..................34/35/37
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed
Rupal Ramesh Shah
Nsiona Nguizani
Coco McCracken
Gashi
Kifah Abdulla
Financial Literacy. ...................36
Tips & Info ...39
Amjambo Africa! (October 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (October 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Afghanistan................................2
Refugees......................................3
Freedom & Captivity...........3/39
Election special. .....................4-7
Editorial/Xenophobia ...............8
Translations...............9-13/30-31
News from Burundi ................14
Fishermen feeding Mainers...15
Beautiful Blackbird Festival ...17
Hope Acts.................................17
Education............................18/19
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed
Valerie Laure Bilogue
Bez Mendelsohn
Health&Wellness ...............20-28
Substance abuse & addiction Covid and Delta In English & translation
New Voices columns ...16/34/35
Rupal Ramesh Shah (16),
Roseline Souebele
Nsiona Nguizani
Coco McCracken
Shay Stewart-Bouley
Zabrina Richards
Columns ............................29/32
Maine Equal Justice ILAP• MIRC
Business Insurance
Financial literacy... ............33
ProsperityME ....................36/37
Amjambo Africa! (September 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (September 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Afghanistan..........................2/39
Burundi/Cameroon.....3/34 - 35
Education . ...........................4 - 9
Publshers Editorial Afghanistan.........................10
Translations........................11-13
World Market Basket........14/15
African Weddings...................16
Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Festival.................................17
Columns...18/19/31
New!
Health&Wellness...............22-30 Covid-19 and Delta variant In English & translation
New!
New Voices.........................32/33
Columnists
Kifah Abdullah,
Rupal Ramesh Shah,
Roseline Souebele
Nsiona Nguizani
Gashi
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month!......................39
Maine organizations serving Spanish speakers...
Spanish coming in October!
Amjambo Africa! (August 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (August 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Murder in Chad.....................2
Healthcare ..............................2
Attacks in Burundi................3
“I Wish My Teacher Knew...” 4
Weddings & Community ....6
Remote Theater Project......12
World Market Basket..........14
Housing in Lewiston .....16/17
Call me Coach Steph! .........18
Tips & Info. ..........................20
Zamzam Elmoge .................22
Dental care. ..........................31
Columns
Rupal Ramesh Shah. ...........13
Kirsten Cappy. .....................19
Financial literacy. ................21
Roseline Souebele................24
Nsiona Nguizani..................24
Theo (our newest columnist!).
24 MIRC ....................................25
ILAP......................................25
Northern Light. ...................26
Insurance..............................26
Maine Equal Justice ............29
Translations
French .....................................8
Swahili ....................................9
Somali. ..................................10
Kinyarwanda........................22
Portuguese............................23
Spanish coming soon!
Amjambo Africa! (July 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (July 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Juneteenth..................................2
Beautiful Blackbird Festival.....3
Publisher’s Editorial..................6
Immigration & the workforce.11
Finding freedom from Trauma Part II..................................12/19
World Market Basket .............14
Food for All Mobile Market
African beef & sauce with Eugénie Kipoy
Nouveaux Romans: reviews of recent novels by Francophone authors A partnership with Bates College .......................15/16/17
Sending money home ............20
Finance.....................................21
Columns. ......................24/25/26
Nigeria bans Twitter ...............27
Bombay Mahal ........................28
Tips&Info for Maine ..............29
ICE in Maine..................30/31
Translations
French .................................8
Swahili ................................9
Somali ...............................10
Kinyarwanda.....................22
Portuguese.........................23
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Masters Theses
Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …
Imperial Crossings: Chinese Indentured Migration To Sumatra's East Coast, 1865-1911, Gregory Jany
Imperial Crossings: Chinese Indentured Migration To Sumatra's East Coast, 1865-1911, Gregory Jany
Student Work
A 2020-2021 Williams Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Gregory Jany (Jonathan Edwards, '21) for his essay submitted to the Department of History, “Imperial Crossings: Chinese Indentured Migration to Sumatra's East Coast, 1865-1911" (Denise Ho, Assistant Professor of History, advisor).
Gregory Jany’s thesis, “Imperial Crossings: Chinese Indentured Migration to Sumatra's East Coast, 1865-1911,” is elegantly written, deeply researched in multiple archives—British materials, Dutch archives, and Qing documents—and uses several languages beyond English: Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Chinese, and Classical Chinese. Grounded in the literatures of the late imperial China, the Chinese diaspora, and colonial Southeast Asia, …
Religious Mega-Events And Their Assemblages In Devotional Pilgrimages: The Case Of Círio De Nazaré In Belém, Pará State, Brazil, José Rogério Lopes, André Luiz Da Silva
Religious Mega-Events And Their Assemblages In Devotional Pilgrimages: The Case Of Círio De Nazaré In Belém, Pará State, Brazil, José Rogério Lopes, André Luiz Da Silva
Journal of Global Catholicism
The article presents a typological categorization of contemporary mega-events and their characteristics, in order to interpret the assemblages mobilized by sectors of the Catholic Church in traditional devotional pilgrimages in the northern region of Brazil. It uses ethnographic accounts of the Círio de Nazaré feast, in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, considered the largest Catholic procession in the West, in order to analyze how the promotion of this event is organized through institutional and market logics that overlap with the religious phenomenon, evincing a contemporary trend. These assemblages open a field of possibilities for institutional religious reproduction and generate concentric flows …
Young Brazilian Catholics Reaffiliating: A Case Study In The City Of Campos, Rj, Brazil, Cecilia L. Mariz, Wânia Amélia Belchior Mesquita, Michelle Piraciaba Araújo
Young Brazilian Catholics Reaffiliating: A Case Study In The City Of Campos, Rj, Brazil, Cecilia L. Mariz, Wânia Amélia Belchior Mesquita, Michelle Piraciaba Araújo
Journal of Global Catholicism
Through a case study in Campos, a northern city of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, this article analyzes reports from young people who state that they have undergone a process of revival or reactivation of their Catholic faith. They all declared to have participated in the “St Andrew’s School of Evangelization.” They also mentioned having experienced an "encounter with God." Their narratives were similar to conversion accounts reported by practitioners of other religious traditions. The interviewees describe faith as a personal choice, and emphasize the need for religious study and the value of religious knowledge. To what extent these values …
Contemporary Brazilian Catholicism And Healing Practices: Notes On Environmentalism And Medicalization, Juliano F. Almeida
Contemporary Brazilian Catholicism And Healing Practices: Notes On Environmentalism And Medicalization, Juliano F. Almeida
Journal of Global Catholicism
Anthropological studies on Brazilian Catholicism traditionally focused on popular variants of this religious practice and their relationship with the official Catholicism. Encouraged by recent anthropological perspectives, which highlight the relevance of devoting researches not only on the margins, but also on the center of social practices, this paper analyzes contemporary practices of Brazilian Catholic friars and priests on health promotion. The analysis of their publications (books that include practices and tips on health and that became best sellers etc.), as well as interviews, allows us to perceive a process of environmentalization on the contemporary Brazilian Catholicism. This process seems to …
Strong Church, Weak Catholicism: Transformations In Brazilian Catholicism, Carlos Alberto Steil, Rodrigo Toniol
Strong Church, Weak Catholicism: Transformations In Brazilian Catholicism, Carlos Alberto Steil, Rodrigo Toniol
Journal of Global Catholicism
In this paper we explore data on Catholicism from the 2010 census in Brazil, as well as other data from the Center for Religious Statistics and Social Investigation. Using these statistics, we question those arguments that explain the reduction in the number of Catholics in Brazilian society as a problem in the institution’s adaptation in response to the challenges of evangelization, or as a lack of ministerial vocations to meet the religious demands of the people. Pursuing an alternative argument, we consider the weakening of the relationship between the Catholic institution and traditional popular Catholicism to be a fundamental aspect …
Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Journal of Global Catholicism
No abstract provided.
Amjambo Africa! (May 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (May 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Chad’s president dies.........2/3
Corruption in Africa.........2/3
Maine & slave trade..............5
Vaccine pause/editorial .......6
Portland Empowered..........12
Onyx Emelo photo essay ...13
Liberation Farms photo essay.......................14
A taste of Jamaica................15
Support for AAPIcommunity........................17
Midcoast Literacy................18
Amran Osman.....................19
Minorities in Healthcare....20
Finance.................................21
Guest Columnists/community voices.....................24/25/26
Ekhlas Ahmed.....................27
Ryan Adams.........................28
Cynthia McGuirl.................28
Navigating benefits.............29
Racial justice........................31
Translations
French..................................7
Swahili.................................8
Somali..................................9
Kinyarwanda.....................22
Portuguese.........................23
Still Dreaming Of You: Selena's Discourse With And Continuing Impact On American Musical Culture, Hannah Lastra
Still Dreaming Of You: Selena's Discourse With And Continuing Impact On American Musical Culture, Hannah Lastra
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Selena Quintanilla Perez continues to circulate in popular culture, including MAC cosmetic lines, a Netflix series, and podcasts. As a result, her cultural influence continues to be passed on and shared with future generations. This thesis focuses on three aspects of Selena and Selena y Los Dinos: Selena’s music, Selena’s performance aesthetic, and Selena’s fandom today. Chapter 1 focuses on Selena y Los Dinos’ American musical influences, particularly studying the songs “Enamorada de ti,” “Missing my Baby,” and “Fotos y Recuerdos” and the presence of American genres of new jack swing, R&B, and rock within them. Chapter 2 focuses on …
Community And Idolatry: San Francisco Cajonos, Yalalag, And Betaza Through The Criminal Court Of Villa Alta, 1700-1704, Jessica Mitchell
Community And Idolatry: San Francisco Cajonos, Yalalag, And Betaza Through The Criminal Court Of Villa Alta, 1700-1704, Jessica Mitchell
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The trials of San Francisco Cajonos and Betaza and Yalálag heard in Villa Alta’s criminal court depict many important facets of life in Colonial Oaxaca, and they especially paint the picture of community, how it was defined and how it operated in reality. Looking specifically at these two rich examples in Villa Alta’s criminal court, at the time, idolatry – native religion, rituals, and devotions defined by Catholics as idolatrous -- helped shape the lines of community and defined who belonged in which space. It also highlights how betrayal and revenge were construed by a community and the response for …
The Role Of The Kurds In U.S. Foreign Policy, Davis Mccool Iii
The Role Of The Kurds In U.S. Foreign Policy, Davis Mccool Iii
Honors Theses
The Kurdish people in the Middle East have played a valuable role in furthering U.S. policy interests in the region. The U.S. has aligned itself with various Kurdish groups in a series of strategic partnerships dating back to the early 1970s, yet has never considered the Kurdish nation an ally. As such, the U.S. has reneged on multiple different pacts with the Kurds and opened the door for state-sponsored conflict against a supposed ally, despite mutual interests between both groups. This thesis aimed to assign a formal role to the Kurds within U.S. foreign policy, and to analyze the function …
Seventy Years Later: Caste Struggle In The Indian Bureaucracy, Kathryn Victoria Doner
Seventy Years Later: Caste Struggle In The Indian Bureaucracy, Kathryn Victoria Doner
Global Studies Student Scholarship
Major: Global Studies and Sociology
Minors: Black and Latin American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Trina Vithayathil, Global Studies
Caste plays a role in all aspects of Indian life. Individuals from disadvantaged castes face challenges because of institutionalized discrimination and inequality favoring caste elites. The 1950 Indian Constitution implemented a centralized system of affirmative action after discriminated castes advocated for more representation in Indian society. Reservation of government bureaucracy seats would help to change the composition and culture of institutions. My research examines the changing caste composition of the administrative bureaucracy and the factors that have supported and impeded this change. …
Amjambo Africa! (April 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (April 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
COVID-19 denial in Burundi and Tanzania.....................2
Cameroonian deportations..3
In Her Presence .................4/5
Health care
Vaccine Q&A
Amjambo’s 3rd birthday.......6
MEBIC..................................10
Dr. Shah on vaccine safety.11
Magufuli of Tanzania..........12
World Market Basket..........14
Farming
African donuts
Soil safety..............................15
Baking Academy.................18
Bikes for all Mainers...........19
Childcare..............................20
Finance................................21
Columns & letters..............................24/25/26/27
Bangor/DEI..........................28
Novruz Festival....................29
Gisele Mukundwa...............31
Musical diversity.................31
Translations
French..................................7
Swahili.................................8
Somali..................................9
Kinyarwanda.....................22
Portuguese.........................23
Catholics & Cultures As An Act Of Improvisation: A Response, Thomas M. Landy
Catholics & Cultures As An Act Of Improvisation: A Response, Thomas M. Landy
Journal of Global Catholicism
This essay responds to seven articles published in the same issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism on the use of Catholics & Cultures, a multimedia website, as a pedagogical resource for college classrooms. The site is deliberately presented in a fashion that undermines notions of center and periphery and presents Catholicism from a lay, lived-religion perspective as the multicultural faith that it is, minimizing reference to religious typologies. Particular attention is given to how to navigate tensions around theorizing, categorizing and sorting information for cross-cultural comparison. Given scholars’ current state of knowledge, writing about and teaching about global Catholicism …
The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell
The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell
Journal of Global Catholicism
Reflecting on my experience teaching Introduction to Global Christianity, this essay ponders questions at the heart of undergraduate teaching: How can we encourage students to utilize online sources? How can we empower them to seek out answers to their questions? It offers practical examples of how I have used the Catholics & Cultures website in my classroom at a large public university. In particular, I reflect on my experience working with students who are mostly of Catholic heritage, but from many cultural and social contexts.
Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Journal of Global Catholicism
I present a close reading of the Catholics & Cultures (C&C) website’s treatment of sexuality-related issues and discuss this material in relation to debates about how to teach sexuality in religious studies and theology classrooms. The C&C website occasionally and intermittently uses a typical “contemporary issues” approach that considers sexuality in relation to legal and legislative decisions and government policies. In contrast, country profiles consistently situate sexuality in relation processes like nation building, urbanization, and lay Catholics’ growing authority. My interpretation highlights the site’s decision to emphasize the longue durée, long-term and deep structural processes driving cultural and religious changes. …
Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck
Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck
Journal of Global Catholicism
More than six decades after its publication, Horace Miner’s 1956 article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” remains a reliable pedagogical tool, remarkably successful in helping students see their own ethnocentric biases. Catholics & Cultures has potential to do similar work. The site lacks some of what makes Miner’s text so effective, in particular its capacity to bring about a sudden shift in perception. The site also shares some of the article’s limitations, particularly in focusing on ritual to the relative exclusion of other aspects of religion. That said, the site can help students gain the religious literacy and develop the …
Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder
Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder
Journal of Global Catholicism
The dynamics of religious resurgence reveal the important ways that religious ritual and performance are meaning making spaces which are not self-contained or cut off from the rest of culture, but rather are a key locus of cultural change. A renewed emphasis on the busy intersections of meaning making – as rituals are connected, disconnected, and reconnected to other domains of social life – would improve the utility of the Catholics & Cultures website for understanding global cultural change. And a renewed emphasis on cultural change would also provide a better means for exploring reflexively by seeking to understand both …
A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht
A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht
Journal of Global Catholicism
Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly …
Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz
Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
In introducing the Catholics & Cultures site and the articles in this special issue, this essay initially locates the overall Catholic & Cultures project within the traditions of ethnography and encyclopedia. Drawing extensively on the work of J. Z. Smith, this essay reflects upon the theoretical implications of emphasizing the diversity of Catholicism in and through a web-based platform that facilitates comparative study and pedagogy. This essay then more specifically considers the web-based aspects of Catholics & Cultures by identifying a nascent cyborgian aesthetic in the site and considering how the site might eventually engage post-modern themes and concerns.