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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 …
Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Journal of Global Catholicism
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The Purple, June 1896
The Purple
The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:
- The First Catholic College in New England
- The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
- Alma's Soldier Sons
- Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
- Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
- Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
- To the Sacred Heart
- A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
- Vesper
- Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
- Fancy …