Through the combined usage of primary source documents and secondary source research, this thesis seeks to discern how the individual national identities of Argentina and Mexico came to fruition. This thesis will demonstrate that the early national period of each region was directly influenced by the colonial context out of which Argentina and Mexico arose. Additionally, this thesis is focused on the ways that a national identity is developed within the public sphere, and how the public sphere might be defined beyond printed newspaper accounts.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T19:29:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 4 / Companhia de Jesus / O presente trabalho mostra, em nível institucional e em nível individual de cada jesuíta, a trajetória de diálogo entre o projeto missionário da Companhia de Jesus e o contexto brasileiro na segunda metade do século XVI, período em que a ordem aqui se implantou e estruturou de um modo que a caracterizaria por todo o período colonial. No nível da instituição (primeira parte), esse diálogo resultou na gestação de uma estrutura organizativa que respondia a todos os aspectos envolvidos na obra catequética, notadamente as ordens de Roma, o plano civilizador português e as experiências missionárias que os jesuítas faziam no contexto brasileiro. Essa trajetória inclui, também, as concepções e crenças que orientavam o plano catequético trazido da Europa e a reformulação dele a partir dos resultados que os padres iam obtendo em sua atuação concreta, além da resignificação dos conceitos de missão e conversão, para dar sentido aos empreendimentos que a Companhia ia fazendo em novas frentes de trabalho, segundo as demand / The present paper shows, both at the institutional and the individual level of every Jesuit, the trajectory of dialogue between the missionary project of the Society of Jesus, and the Brazilian context in the second half of the XVI century, a period in which order was here being implanted and structured in a way that would characterize it during the whole colonial period. At the institutional level (first part), this dialogue resulted in the gestion of an organizative structure that responded to all the aspects involved in the catechetical work, especially the orders from Rome, the Portuguese civilizing plan, and the missionary experiences that the Jesuits were making in the Brazilian context. This trajectory includes also the conceptions and believes that oriented the catechetical plan brought from Europe, as well as its reformulation departing from the results which the priests were obtaining in their concrete actuation, as well as the resignification of the concepts of mission and conversion, in order to g

Sovereignty and self-determination are two principles accepted by UN in the UN Charter and resolutions. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the tensions between sovereignty and self-determination principles in the UN and to increase understanding of how these tensions might have led to ambiguity in UN policy toward the West Papua case. The thesis identifies that there are tensions between those two principles in the UN resolutions. The tensions cause ambiguity in the UN when they are involving in self-determination cases outside the classical colonial context. The argument will be strengthened by conducting a single case study analysis on West Papua self-determination claim. As one of the self-determination claims outside the classical colonial context, the UN role when being involved in the case is argued to be lack of response and ambiguous. It concludes that the ambiguity of the UN when involved in the West Papua self-determination claim is resulted from the tensions between sovereignty and self-determination principles in the UN resolutions.

The central thesis of this study is that Newbigin‟s thought and writing can contribute to understanding the church as an integral part of Indian society, in terms of both her identity and role. Newbigin‟s writing, subsequent to his return to the West after more than three decades in India, often sought to address what he saw as the Western church‟s loss of confidence in its role and position in a post-enlightenment, post-Christendom society. This study tries to work with this material, as well as what was written during his time in India. The second chapter and the third chapter give consideration to the two central elements in Newbigin‟s understanding of the church‟s mission and identity: the eschatological renewal of the whole earth that will occur at the return of Christ and the connection of this end to Christ‟s death on the cross. As the third chapter will consider, while he locates the focus of the church‟s mission in relation to the end, the death of Christ indicates the way in which this mission will be carried out. The remainder of the third chapter will consider the implication of this for the church‟s mission in relation to the presence of poverty and marginalisation in Indian society and its movement towards a consumer economy. The fourth chapter will consider the place of the church in relation to India‟s long and rich culture, suggesting ways in which the church is to become an incultured community. The fifth chapter will address the issue of the relationship of the church to the followers of other faiths. Through interaction with some Indian theologians it will be shown how Newbigin gave attention to the church as both open to the movement of the Spirit beyond the boundaries of the church, while also emphasizing the church as central to our knowing Christ. The sixth chapter will draw out the ways in which Newbigin was consciously engaging with the post colonial context of the church, particularly in his interpretation of the relationship between the Spirit and the church. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciney Paulino Flora.pdf: 3413404 bytes, checksum: ad2bedd7e4cef99fdb705eedd8696b30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present dissertation accomplished a study about the emerging of the Cargo Cults in the dynamic of encounters and conflicts in Melanesia and Papua New Guinea s intercultural and colonial context. Its main aim was: 1) to analyse the colonization process and its impact on Melanesia and Papua New Guinea s society, culture and religions, emphasising the missionary actions, e 2) to make an approximation and reading of the Cargo Cults development through the historic relations that follows the encounter between occidental culture and traditional cultures . As methodological resource it conjugated the concepts of cultural negotiation , cultural translation , transculturality , cultural appropriation and syncretism , making a reading witch try to surpass the old binary s approaches of reflections that looked at the Western and Traditional societies as closed totalities. From the interpretation process of the research s composition, it was concluded that the colonial circumstance and the missionaries presence brought about a new reality, of conflict and constant cultural negotiation. Cargo Cults were seen as expression of that new reality. The research showed that in this cultural negotiation process there are losses, but also earnings to both sides / Esta dissertação realizou um estudo sobre o surgimento dos Cultos a Carga na dinâmica dos encontros e conflitos no contexto intercultural e colonial da Melanésia e Papua Nova Guiné. Seus objetivos foram: 1) analisar o processo colonizatório e seu impacto sobre a sociedade, cultura e religiões da Melanésia e Papua Nova Guiné, enfatizando o efeito da ação missionária e 2) fazer uma aproximação e leitura do desenvolvimento dos Cultos a Carga a partir das relações históricas que se sucedem ao encontro entre a cultura ocidental e as culturas tradicionais . Como recurso metodológico, conjugou conceitos como negociação cultural , tradução cultural , transculturalidade , apropriação cultural e sincretismo , realizando uma leitura que visou superar posturas binárias de reflexão, que veem a sociedade ocidental e as sociedades tradicionais como totalidades fechadas . Com o processo de interpretação na composição da pesquisa, concluiu-se que a situação colonial e a presença missionária instalou uma nova realidade de conflito e constante negociação cultural . Os Cultos a Carga foram vistos como expressões desta nova realidade. A pesquisa mostrou que nesse processo de negociação cultural existem perdas, mas também existem ganhos para ambos os lados

The central thesis of this study is that Newbigin‟s thought and writing can contribute to understanding the church as an integral part of Indian society, in terms of both her identity and role. Newbigin‟s writing, subsequent to his return to the West after more than three decades in India, often sought to address what he saw as the Western church‟s loss of confidence in its role and position in a post-enlightenment, post-Christendom society. This study tries to work with this material, as well as what was written during his time in India. The second chapter and the third chapter give consideration to the two central elements in Newbigin‟s understanding of the church‟s mission and identity: the eschatological renewal of the whole earth that will occur at the return of Christ and the connection of this end to Christ‟s death on the cross. As the third chapter will consider, while he locates the focus of the church‟s mission in relation to the end, the death of Christ indicates the way in which this mission will be carried out. The remainder of the third chapter will consider the implication of this for the church‟s mission in relation to the presence of poverty and marginalisation in Indian society and its movement towards a consumer economy. The fourth chapter will consider the place of the church in relation to India‟s long and rich culture, suggesting ways in which the church is to become an incultured community. The fifth chapter will address the issue of the relationship of the church to the followers of other faiths. Through interaction with some Indian theologians it will be shown how Newbigin gave attention to the church as both open to the movement of the Spirit beyond the boundaries of the church, while also emphasizing the church as central to our knowing Christ. The sixth chapter will draw out the ways in which Newbigin was consciously engaging with the post colonial context of the church, particularly in his interpretation of the relationship between the Spirit and the church. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)

L’interculturation est constitutive de l’histoire du Québec. Ce travail analyse les phénomènes d’interculturation entre populations catholiques et protestantes dans le Sud-Ouest du Québec, des années 1830 à 1920, notamment à travers le prisme du discours et des pratiques de la communauté protestante francophone, alors en expansion. Avant de proposer une typologie des individus qui optèrent pour le protestantisme évangélique dans cet environnement rural, nous avons étudié les voies qu’ils prirent pour y accéder et les raisons de cette acculturation choisie, perçue par la majorité comme une transgression. Nous montrons ensuite les divers degrés d’imbrication entre cette conversion et l’ethos victorien du temps en insistant sur la loyauté envers l’Empire britannique d’une majorité de Canadiens français protestants, posture complexe et polémique dans un contexte colonial. Nous tentons enfin de faire apparaître les zones de rencontres et les interactions interconfessionnelles entre ces individus de confession et de langue différente, territoire peu exploré de l’interculturation au quotidien, dans le but de réévaluer l’idée répandue que le seul mode d’interaction de ces populations ait été conflictuel ou au mieux, coexistentiel. / Cross-cultural relationships, complete with conflictual overtones and strategic dealings, have been part and parcel of the fabric of Quebec history. This work sets out to analyse these crosscultural phenomena at work in Catholic and Protestant relationships in South-Western Quebec from the 1830’s to 1920, mainly through the lens of the growing French-Protestant community. Before offering a typology of those who opted for Evangelical Protestantism in this rural context, I have first thoroughly gone through the ways of the process of conversion/acculturation as experienced by those who dared transgress confessional boundaries and the reasons why they chose to do so. I have then argued that this conversion was, to a higher or lesser degree, closely intertwined with the then prevailing Victorian ethos, and overwhelmingly translated into a staunch loyalty towards the British empire, a complex and controversial posture to adopt for any French Canadian in that colonial context. Particular attention was finally paid to the relations between Catholics and Protestants, French and English-speaking, as they lived their lives from day-to-day, in an attempt to appraise the prevailing idea that these relations were perenially conflictual or at best, on a footing of reciprocated indifference.