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In the fall of 1810, two young Acadian women exhibited signs interpreted by their predominantly Catholic community as a possession or enchantment by threatening spiritual forces. Family and neighbours banded together and performed unorthodox rituals that offer historians of religion and of Acadia the opportunity to analyze several Atlantic influences on this rural parish. It is an intriguing case in the religious and social history of Nova Scotia that demonstrates multiple cultural aspects in convergence. The Acadian community's history and its location on a colonial fringe connected its members with diverse ritual knowledges. This article argues that the nature of the girls' symptoms and the methods that the Acadian community used to bring healing reached beyond lay Roman Catholicism. The Acadians were influenced by New Light evangelical theology and baptismal spirituality from New England, as well as African diaspora spiritual elements from a nearby Black Loyalist settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La création de l’institut supérieur de pédagogie (ISP) de l’institut catholique de Paris (ICP) en 1941 est une étape importante dans l’histoire de la formation professionnelle des maîtres de l’enseignement catholique français. Si certains y voient la possibilité de participer au perfectionnement pédagogique des professeurs en mettant à l’étude les méthodes actives, d’autres préfèrent profiter de cette occasion pour mener une réflexion sur les fondements théologiques du mouvement de l’éducation nouvelle dont elles sont issues. En nommant Pierre Faure à la direction pédagogique de cet Institut, l’enseignement supérieur catholique affiche sa volonté d’être au plus près des pratiques pédagogiques fidèles à la doctrine chrétienne en contrepoint des découvertes pédagogiques de son époque.

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à Besançon, ville moyenne et peu industrialisée de l’est de la France, l’influence du catholicisme reste forte. Ainsi le PCF connaît-il des résultats électoraux plus faibles que la moyenne française et la CGT est-elle fortement concurrencée par la CFTC. Pour autant, les militants communistes sont de tous les combats et les positions choisies sont fidèles à la ligne nationale. Mais la lutte anticolonialiste montre cependant des nuances et une certaine autonomie du local. Les communistes trouvent des alliés chez les catholiques de gauche bisontins. Lors du conflit indochinois, ils sont les principaux opposants, mais avec la guerre d’Algérie, les forces se rééquilibrent entre ces derniers et les catholiques de gauche. Très souvent, ils construisent ensemble leur opposition aux guerres coloniales. Des liens structurels et individuels se tissent, qui font naître une contestation plus commune qu’au niveau national.

Les années 1930 ont constitué un terreau fertile pour l’éclosion d’œuvres qui sont devenues des classiques de la bande dessinée et ce, tant américaine que franco-belge. Au Québec, le marché est surtout occupé par des traductions de bandes américaines. De 1935 à 1938, L’Action catholique publiera 11 récits, totalisant plus de 700 bandes. Il s’agit, pour la majorité, d’adaptations de romans québécois du terroir faisant l’apologie des racines canadiennes-françaises et de la religion catholique, tels L’appel de la race de Lionel Groulx. Ces adaptations sont livrées sous la forme d’image d’Épinal. Nous étudions ici ces bandes dessinées et, plus précisément le rôle du personnage féminin dans ces histoires, notamment dans Son chemin de Damas qui est aussi le seul récit à utiliser le phylactère. Abstract: The 1930s were a bountiful backdrop for the proliferation of publications that became seminal American and Franco-Belgian comic strip classics. In Quebec, translations of American comic strips took up the lion’s share of the market. Between 1935 to 1938, L’Action catholique published eleven stories, comprising in excess of 700 comic strips. These were, by and large, adaptations of native Quebec novels that glorified Franco-Canadian roots and Catholicism, including Lionel Groulx’s L’appel de la race. These adaptations were sewn into popular imagery. This is an examination of these comic strips, with specific focus on the role of the female characters, particularly in Son Chemin de Damas, the one and only story to include the phylactery.

This article examines the interaction of Catholic missionary education with the French mandate state in Syria and Lebanon in the 1920s. Taking a short cross-section of the Mandate era, the article argues that Catholic missionaries' activity in the educational sphere must be considered from a meso-level analysis to complement micro-level focus on school activity and macro-level examination of imperial relations. Such an approach begins by acknowledging the particularity of the Levantine setting, wherein Catholic activity was well embedded into the locale. It also puts into evidence the utility of Catholic educational institutions in the region for the French Mandate state's priorities. It nevertheless considers the autonomy of these institutions; for instance, the parallel hierarchy that the French Church itself represented, with its independent priorities. Finally, the article considers the significance of inter-imperial rivalry in the Levant leading to these institutions' empowerment by French mandate authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to evaluate and articulate what makes Catholic schools special and effective by measuring culture and climate in five Catholic high schools and two Catholic elementary schools in a large metropolitan area in the Midwest United States. The seven schools represented a variety of student demographics, location, and size of school. Findings of this study included: the Catholic identity of schools must become an intentional aspect of the planning, orientation, training, and evaluation of the faculty and administration; faculty-student relationships are rarely measured regarding their effectiveness in bolstering academic achievement or Catholic mission effectiveness; cultural awareness and cultural responsive pedagogy must become a component of school orientation if not teacher education; and teacher expectations impact the student-teacher relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes how students in an urban Catholic school draw on racial and religious categories to construct classroom-specific identities during coursework. When students engage with each other in classroom discussions, they use broadly circulating, institutional, and event-level categories to position one another, and in doing so articulate who may speak and participate in class talk. This paper draws from interactional ethnographic data, showing how Vietnamese American and African American students used different religious and racial categories to delimit the interactional floor during class time and in the process exclude speakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyze a new effort at collective political mobilization, sponsored by the Catholic Church in Central America following the demobilization of church-linked liberationist movements since the early 1990s. The current effort strives to re-project social Catholicism into the public arena by drawing on traditional Catholic structures, the cultural legacy of liberationist Catholicism, and a model of democratic organizing promoted by the PICO National Network in the United States. Drawing primarily on ethnographic and interview data, we explain the initial success of the effort in the light of the literature on resource mobilization, mobilizing structures, and the cultural dynamics of social movements, then assess the ongoing and future challenges that PICO-Central America is likely to face. We argue that despite PICO’s challenges in Central America, the movement represents a rebirth of Catholic activism in the region and holds significant promise as one element in the consolidation of democratic politics in Central America. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the historiography of the French Revolution as examined by counterrevolutionary and traditionalist Catholics as well as liberal Catholics during the February Revolution in 1848. Topics include the efforts of liberal Catholic ideology to accommodate a post-revolutionary society; an analysis of Catholics' interpretations of the French Revolution by historians including Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Charles Lenormant, and Louis de Carné; and the conservative interpretation of the French revolutions.

An essay is presented exploring the impact of John Klause's argument claiming that William Shakespeare's play was influenced by Robert Southwell's "An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty." It mentions that Southwell's artwork was a prayer-like text widely circulated in manuscript form. Moreover, these prayers were worth discussing because they reveal a person's relationship with his interior subject and society.

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Les auteurs de l'article présentent un examen historique de l'enseignement catholique et des inscriptions des élèves en Amérique du Nord et un exposé récent des préférences des chefs d'établissements catholiques en matière de prise de décision et de résolution des problèmes. Cet article vise à permettre au lecteur de comprendre les évènements qui ont eu une incidence que les Conseils d'administration des écoles catholiques et leurs membres aux États-Unis et au Canada, de même que leurs pratiques actuelles. Les auteurs utilisent un instrument d'enquête dérivé des recherches de Wayne Hoy sur la prise de décision et la résolution de problèmes. Leurs constatations quantitatives proviennent de 121 chefs d'établissements d'école de la maternelle au lycée, situés dans l'ensemble des États-Unis et dans la province de l'Ontario. Cette étude montre l'absence de différences entre les approches de gouvernance en vue de résoudre les problèmes contemporains dans les écoles nord-américaines, quels que soient les différents contextes historiques, culturels et économiques. L'article soutient le renforcement de la mission catholique au sein des conseils d'administration des établissements les programmes de gouvernance et d'administration en Amérique du Nord. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]