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Negotiating Plurality: Korean Catholic Funerals As Lived Religion, Jieun Han Sep 2026

Negotiating Plurality: Korean Catholic Funerals As Lived Religion, Jieun Han

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article examines Korean Catholic funeral rites through the lenses of ritual

guidebooks and lived religion, arguing that Catholic funerary practice in Korea

has emerged through sustained engagement with Confucian and Buddhist tradi-

tions as well as modern nationalism. Focusing on Catholic manuals such as the

Sangjang yesik [Rites for Mourning and Funerals] and related texts, it traces how

officially sanctioned liturgical forms coexist with, accommodate, and reinterpret

indigenous ritual logics surrounding mourning, burial, ancestor veneration, and

care for the dead. Rather than viewing Korean Catholic funerals as a simple

localization of Roman rites, the article conceptualizes them as a …


Editor's Introduction, Brent H. Otto S.J. Sep 2026

Editor's Introduction, Brent H. Otto S.J.

Journal of Global Catholicism

No abstract provided.


Hindu Poetry And The Project Of An Inter-Spiritual Catholic Theology, Francis X. Clooney Jul 2026

Hindu Poetry And The Project Of An Inter-Spiritual Catholic Theology, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article engages the work of the Indian south Indian Tamil-language Vaiṣṇava poet saints known as the Alvārs. The article specifically focuses the First HundredHoly Linked verses of Poykai Ālvār to argue for inter-spiritual learning between Catholics and Hindus. The article concludes with personal reflections on this encounter within the context of the global Catholic Church


Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2026

Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2026

Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Revelations: Spirituality As Privileged Perspectivism In Magical Realist Distortions, Isabella Scala-Kazanecki Jan 2025

Revelations: Spirituality As Privileged Perspectivism In Magical Realist Distortions, Isabella Scala-Kazanecki

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by Francine Prose, an American writer. The Kingdom of This World, itself the originator of the mode of magical realism, has allowed me to conclude with Carpentier that magical realism arises from “privileged revelations,” as he notes in the preface to his seminal book. But these revelations in magical realism are not necessarily always of the …


Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston Jan 2024

Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Enslavement, colonization, and the systems that uphold racial injustice were and still are a series of new, unfathomable, and challenging experiences that prompt individuals within the diaspora to seek orientation. How does a human cope with centuries of attempts at the systematic destruction of their humanity, culture, and identity? How can they reclaim that identity, especially when so much of it seems lost? I address these questions by utilizing texts from the expansive body of work regarding ethnographic-historical-religious studies on Afro-spiritual practices to better analyze instances in literature in the ongoing practice of diasporic orientation. In this project, I argue …


La Fiesta Del Espiritu Santo: An Original Work For Choir, Soloists, And Small Ensemble Influenced By The Santeria Music Of The African-Dominican Community In The Dominican Republic, Rafael Scarfullery Dec 2023

La Fiesta Del Espiritu Santo: An Original Work For Choir, Soloists, And Small Ensemble Influenced By The Santeria Music Of The African-Dominican Community In The Dominican Republic, Rafael Scarfullery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

This study examines the role of Santería music as practiced by African Dominicans in Villa Mella, a neighborhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This musical tradition comes from the culture and religion of the Yoruba people who were brought as slaves from Africa, and features complex drum rhythms and call-and-response chants. This paper deals with the historical and social context of Santería music within the Dominican Republic, but its principal objective is to adopt the musical language of this tradition and use it to create a new contemporary work for mixed choir and small ensemble.

One of the most …


Interviews In Global Catholicism: Dr. Petra Kuivala, Petra Kuivala Nov 2023

Interviews In Global Catholicism: Dr. Petra Kuivala, Petra Kuivala

Journal of Global Catholicism

Interview with Dr. Petra Kuivala, University of Eastern Finland


Cultural Folk, Political Lore: The Politics Of Folklore During The United States Occupation Of Haiti From 1915 To 1934, Cheyla G. Muñoz Ramos Jun 2023

Cultural Folk, Political Lore: The Politics Of Folklore During The United States Occupation Of Haiti From 1915 To 1934, Cheyla G. Muñoz Ramos

Honors Theses

My project focuses on Haitian folklore in the early twentieth century in connection to the first United States’ occupation of Haiti. The United States’ Marine Corps occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934. This nineteenth-year occupation brought violence and racial stereotypes towards the Haitian population, especially the peasantry. United States Americans coming to Haiti intensified these stereotypes. During this period, Haitian upper-and middle-class members heavily politized Haitian folklore and used it to defend Haiti against these stereotypes. Scholars have long discussed the anthropological works of ethno-anthropologist Jean Price-Mars as someone who tried to show the value of Haitian folklore, especially the …


Narrar El Final De Los Tiempos: Misantropía Y Liberación En Dos “Cuentos Atómicos” Del Salvadoreño Álvaro Menen Desleal (1960s), David Díaz Arias Mar 2023

Narrar El Final De Los Tiempos: Misantropía Y Liberación En Dos “Cuentos Atómicos” Del Salvadoreño Álvaro Menen Desleal (1960s), David Díaz Arias

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

El presente artículo analiza una parte de la obra de ciencia ficción del salvadoreño Álvaro Menen Desleal. Para eso, se concentra en uno de los temas que, aunque no dominante, sí es abordado de forma crítica y sagaz por parte de ese autor: el exterminio de la humanidad a partir de una hecatombe nuclear. Así, se estudian dos cuentos publicados por Menen Desleal en 1969 y que forman parte de su premiado texto Una cuerda de nylon y oro y otros cuentos maravillosos. Los cuentos son el que le da nombre a esa antología de relatos y “Hacer el …


Sanctuary: The-Construction Of Communion, Carlos Salazar-Lermont May 2022

Sanctuary: The-Construction Of Communion, Carlos Salazar-Lermont

MFA in Visual Art

This thesis narrates the development of the multimedia art installation called Sanctuary. I unwrap the theoretical background of my practice, which is rooted in the theories of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, and the rhizome theory by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I approach my creative process as a grammatic of matter, space, and time, constructing meaning through an interplay of significants that connect to political, social, economic, and cultural implications. In the case of Sanctuary, I sought to create a path of empathy towards Venezuelan refugees in St. Louis, Missouri through the exploration of the concept of communion. …


The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer Apr 2022

The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer

English Theses and Dissertations

The Rise of an Eco-Spiritual Imaginary reveals a shared ecological aesthetic among contemporary U.S. ethnic writers whose novels communicate a decolonial spiritual reverence for the earth. This shared narrative focus challenges white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism to instantiate new ways of imagining community across socially constructed boundaries of time, space, nation, race, and species. The eco-spiritual imaginary—by which I mean a shared reverence for the ecological interconnection between all living beings—articulates a common biological origin and sacredness of all life that transcends racial difference while remaining grounded in local ethnicities and bioregions. The novelists representing …


Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 087 Second Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 087 Second Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 109 First Un-Named African Man In Pennsylvania, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 109 First Un-Named African Man In Pennsylvania, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 254 Cawley, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 254 Cawley, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 375 Isambakon, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 375 Isambakon, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.