Luci Vaden
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462005
- eISBN:
- 9781626745094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462005.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
In 1970, the United States’ Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered South Carolina school districts to end their dual public education systems. Rock Hill, South Carolina, a community thirty miles ...
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In 1970, the United States’ Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered South Carolina school districts to end their dual public education systems. Rock Hill, South Carolina, a community thirty miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina, responded by closing down the all-black schools in the district and hurriedly rezoning all students into previously all-white schools. Yet, once in their new schools, black students faced continued discrimination and received inferior educational opportunities. In conjunction with the Rock Hill Catholic Church Oratory, black students responded by challenging the lasting remnants of Jim Crow, demanding adequate school facilities, fair discipline policies, qualified teachers, and advanced curriculums. This chapter analyzes the ways in which the Oratory, a local Catholic mission, became a bedrock for civil rights activism in this predominantly Protestant community. The story demonstrates a sustained effort by African American youth, aided by the Catholic Church, to overcome the legacy of racial discrimination in the American South in the years following the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and federally enforced school desegregation.Less
In 1970, the United States’ Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered South Carolina school districts to end their dual public education systems. Rock Hill, South Carolina, a community thirty miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina, responded by closing down the all-black schools in the district and hurriedly rezoning all students into previously all-white schools. Yet, once in their new schools, black students faced continued discrimination and received inferior educational opportunities. In conjunction with the Rock Hill Catholic Church Oratory, black students responded by challenging the lasting remnants of Jim Crow, demanding adequate school facilities, fair discipline policies, qualified teachers, and advanced curriculums. This chapter analyzes the ways in which the Oratory, a local Catholic mission, became a bedrock for civil rights activism in this predominantly Protestant community. The story demonstrates a sustained effort by African American youth, aided by the Catholic Church, to overcome the legacy of racial discrimination in the American South in the years following the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and federally enforced school desegregation.
John Pollard
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203193
- eISBN:
- 9780191675775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203193.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the development of political Catholicism in Italy between 1918 and 1968. It focuses on the relationship between the ecclesiastical hierarchy, especially the Papacy, and the ...
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This chapter discusses the development of political Catholicism in Italy between 1918 and 1968. It focuses on the relationship between the ecclesiastical hierarchy, especially the Papacy, and the various organizational forms that political Catholicism took in this period, and on the interaction between the Italian Catholic movement in general and the political activities of Italian Catholics. After 1918 this meant essentially Catholic Action and the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) and after 1945 Catholic Action and the Democrazia Cristiana (DC).Less
This chapter discusses the development of political Catholicism in Italy between 1918 and 1968. It focuses on the relationship between the ecclesiastical hierarchy, especially the Papacy, and the various organizational forms that political Catholicism took in this period, and on the interaction between the Italian Catholic movement in general and the political activities of Italian Catholics. After 1918 this meant essentially Catholic Action and the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) and after 1945 Catholic Action and the Democrazia Cristiana (DC).
Lara Medina
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195162271
- eISBN:
- 9780199850365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162271.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines María Antonietta Berriozábal, native of San Antonio, Texas; Rosa Martha Zárate, of San Bernardino, California; and Tess Browne, of Boston, Massachusetts—all three see themselves ...
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This chapter examines María Antonietta Berriozábal, native of San Antonio, Texas; Rosa Martha Zárate, of San Bernardino, California; and Tess Browne, of Boston, Massachusetts—all three see themselves as catalysts of change in their communities. Their involvement with Las Hermanas, a thirty-four-year-old national religious-political feminist organization of Chicana/Latina Catholics, influenced their profound commitment to community, justice, and faith. This chapter provides a brief overview of the sociohistorical context from which Las Hermanas emerged; then presents snapshot profiles of Zárate, Browne, and Berriozábal. These brief descriptions of their extensive work provide windows into the effect that Las Hermanas has had on Latina Catholic political activism. It is argued that the autonomous space created by Las Hermanas and its integration of spirituality and social activism influenced and strengthened these women in their involvement in civic affairs. No other Latina Catholic organization exists that serves this purpose.Less
This chapter examines María Antonietta Berriozábal, native of San Antonio, Texas; Rosa Martha Zárate, of San Bernardino, California; and Tess Browne, of Boston, Massachusetts—all three see themselves as catalysts of change in their communities. Their involvement with Las Hermanas, a thirty-four-year-old national religious-political feminist organization of Chicana/Latina Catholics, influenced their profound commitment to community, justice, and faith. This chapter provides a brief overview of the sociohistorical context from which Las Hermanas emerged; then presents snapshot profiles of Zárate, Browne, and Berriozábal. These brief descriptions of their extensive work provide windows into the effect that Las Hermanas has had on Latina Catholic political activism. It is argued that the autonomous space created by Las Hermanas and its integration of spirituality and social activism influenced and strengthened these women in their involvement in civic affairs. No other Latina Catholic organization exists that serves this purpose.
Stephen J. C. Andes
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199688487
- eISBN:
- 9780191767661
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688487.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion, Latin American History
The establishment of Catholic Action in Mexico in the 1930s is the subject of Chapter 6. The Vatican founded an official model of Catholic Action globally during the decade, so Mexico and Chile, ...
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The establishment of Catholic Action in Mexico in the 1930s is the subject of Chapter 6. The Vatican founded an official model of Catholic Action globally during the decade, so Mexico and Chile, despite their different contexts, had to conform to a non-party political conception of Catholic Action. Mexican Catholic activists challenged its establishment but, by the end of the decade, Catholic Action’s separation between party politics and the Catholic movement influenced Catholic university students throughout Latin America. A generational divide occurred as older Catholic activists fiercely rejected the separation of party politics from religious action.Less
The establishment of Catholic Action in Mexico in the 1930s is the subject of Chapter 6. The Vatican founded an official model of Catholic Action globally during the decade, so Mexico and Chile, despite their different contexts, had to conform to a non-party political conception of Catholic Action. Mexican Catholic activists challenged its establishment but, by the end of the decade, Catholic Action’s separation between party politics and the Catholic movement influenced Catholic university students throughout Latin America. A generational divide occurred as older Catholic activists fiercely rejected the separation of party politics from religious action.
Jack Downey
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265435
- eISBN:
- 9780823266906
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265435.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This study investigates the origins, development, and influence of a controversial retreat movement which emerged as a self-consciously countercultural response to the socio-religious revival in ...
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This study investigates the origins, development, and influence of a controversial retreat movement which emerged as a self-consciously countercultural response to the socio-religious revival in early twentieth-century Québec. The movement's founder and namesake, Onésime Lacouture, S.J., developed a redaction of the Ignatian Exercises that was heavily informed by his mystical experiences and ascetic theology. The retreat was wildly attractive to some, while others saw it as overly severe, possibly heretical. The retreat endured Lacouture's personal suppression, and migrated southward to the United States, nesting among sympathetic clergy constellated around Pittsburgh. Its most prolific advocate and apologist was a diocesan priest named John Hugo, who traded blows with antagonistic critics and was himself “exiled” to a series of suburban Pennsylvanian parishes. Hugo would proselytize the retreat tirelessly, and found an enthusiastic vessel in Dorothy Day—cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, candidate for sainthood, and an icon of contemporary radical Catholic activism. From a socially withdrawn contemplative movement—deeply opposed to mainstream Canadien assimilation into Anglo Canadian culture and the then-ascendant “social Catholicism”—the Lacouture retreat would morph into spiritual fodder for arguably the most radically socially engaged iteration of Roman Catholicism in North America. This book discusses the evolution of “Lacouturisme” and its impact on Catholic Worker theology within the contexts of the Christian ascetic tradition, Catholic engagements with “Modernism,” and spiritual transnationalism.Less
This study investigates the origins, development, and influence of a controversial retreat movement which emerged as a self-consciously countercultural response to the socio-religious revival in early twentieth-century Québec. The movement's founder and namesake, Onésime Lacouture, S.J., developed a redaction of the Ignatian Exercises that was heavily informed by his mystical experiences and ascetic theology. The retreat was wildly attractive to some, while others saw it as overly severe, possibly heretical. The retreat endured Lacouture's personal suppression, and migrated southward to the United States, nesting among sympathetic clergy constellated around Pittsburgh. Its most prolific advocate and apologist was a diocesan priest named John Hugo, who traded blows with antagonistic critics and was himself “exiled” to a series of suburban Pennsylvanian parishes. Hugo would proselytize the retreat tirelessly, and found an enthusiastic vessel in Dorothy Day—cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, candidate for sainthood, and an icon of contemporary radical Catholic activism. From a socially withdrawn contemplative movement—deeply opposed to mainstream Canadien assimilation into Anglo Canadian culture and the then-ascendant “social Catholicism”—the Lacouture retreat would morph into spiritual fodder for arguably the most radically socially engaged iteration of Roman Catholicism in North America. This book discusses the evolution of “Lacouturisme” and its impact on Catholic Worker theology within the contexts of the Christian ascetic tradition, Catholic engagements with “Modernism,” and spiritual transnationalism.
Paulus Wiryono Priyotamtama
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267309
- eISBN:
- 9780823272334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267309.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and ...
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For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and Bina Swadaya, Wiryono offers an articulation of the democratizing legacy left by figures like John Batista Dijkstra, S.J. The system of musyawara that Dijkstra championed—‘a traditional system of mutual dialogue, consultation, deliberation, and decision-making based on consensus’—grounds the contemporary Indonesian state philosophy of pancasila. In his analysis, Wiryono evaluates the effectiveness, and continued relevance, of this deliberative process for developing contemporary lay Catholic activists and, in the end, finds that the process of musyawara retains its effectiveness in the process of developing such activists, especially when their religious, social, and political commitments are coupled with social entrepreneurship and responsibility.Less
For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and Bina Swadaya, Wiryono offers an articulation of the democratizing legacy left by figures like John Batista Dijkstra, S.J. The system of musyawara that Dijkstra championed—‘a traditional system of mutual dialogue, consultation, deliberation, and decision-making based on consensus’—grounds the contemporary Indonesian state philosophy of pancasila. In his analysis, Wiryono evaluates the effectiveness, and continued relevance, of this deliberative process for developing contemporary lay Catholic activists and, in the end, finds that the process of musyawara retains its effectiveness in the process of developing such activists, especially when their religious, social, and political commitments are coupled with social entrepreneurship and responsibility.
Alice J. Kang
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199340101
- eISBN:
- 9780199380077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199340101.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors ...
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Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors outside the state who care about the representation of women's interests. To more fully explore the who and how questions of women's representation, this chapter examines the feminist activists and Catholic activists who mobilized around the African Union's treaty on women's rights, the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The chapter finds that feminists and Catholics employed multilevel strategies in their attempts to influence whether governments would ratify the African Union's treaty. Activists in democracies and autocracies engaged in international networking as well as domestic lobbying, protesting, and consciousness-raising.Less
Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors outside the state who care about the representation of women's interests. To more fully explore the who and how questions of women's representation, this chapter examines the feminist activists and Catholic activists who mobilized around the African Union's treaty on women's rights, the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The chapter finds that feminists and Catholics employed multilevel strategies in their attempts to influence whether governments would ratify the African Union's treaty. Activists in democracies and autocracies engaged in international networking as well as domestic lobbying, protesting, and consciousness-raising.
