This thesis links theological developments in two eras and contexts of Christian history by exploring how the question of Christian identity is dealt with by a number of Christian writers who are chosen for their representative significance in the two contexts. By this approach, the two eras concerned, early Hellenistic Christianity and modern African Christianity, are treated as belonging together within the one entity of Christian history. In a brief Introduction I attempt to establish the case for the methodological principle stated, and also to indicate its importance for understanding modern African theology in particular. Chapter One examines the intellectual and ideological background against which early Hellenistic Christian self-definition was to develop. The attempt is made to show that it was in response to the intellectual and spiritual forces that operated in the Graeco-Roman world, particularly as these affected the "Pagan" perception of Christianity, that the emergent Christian thought developed. The rest of Part One (Chapters Two to Five) examines the viewpoints and achievements of Tatian, Tartullian, Justin and Clement of Alexandria. The emphasis throughout is on how the career and thought of each writer witnesses and responds to the existence of a Christian identity problem. It was in the process of the clarification of Christian identity that theological concerns were also shaped and defined. Part Two deals with the modern African Christian story. Chapter Six examines the legacy of the modern missionary enterprise from Europe and North America as the background to the issues that have gained prominence on the African theological agenda in the post-missionary Church. The rest of Part Two (Chapters Seven to Ten) examines the contributions of four writers - E. Bolaji Idowu, John Mbiti, Mulago gwa Cikala Musharhamina and Byang Kato - towards the definition of African responses to the encounter of the Christian Gospel with African tradition, and towards the development of an African theology. The Conclusion (Chapter Eleven) attempts to use the achievement of the patristic period studied in Part One to clarify some of the areas of theological concern which may yet need to receive attention from African theologians. The presence of an intellectual anti-Christian polemic in Africa, as in the earlier period, is noted as one indication of the need for African theologians to take even more seriously the question of Christian identity in the modern African context. It is as this is done, that the uniquely African contribution to Christian theology will be made.

This thesis is concerned with the ways in which Ebony magazine sought to recover, popularise and utilise black history between the late 1950s and the late 1980s. The dominant scholarly approach to Ebony has focused on the magazine's bourgeois values and visual aesthetics, and has ignored its importance as a creator and disseminator of black history. By contrast, I highlight the multiple ways in which black history became central to Ebony's content from the late 1950s onwards. Far from viewing Ebony as peripheral to or simply reflective of popular debates into the black past, I place the magazine at the heart of contestations between the corporate, philosophical and political uses of black history during the second half of the twentieth century. In Ebony, this shift was quarterbacked by Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine's senior editor and in-house historian. Bennett's emergence as a prominent black historian and intellectual, and his increased desire to present history 'from a black perspective', was paralleled by Ebony's broader move from a more politicised to a more market-driven moment. Rooted in my unique position as the first scholar to look at Bennett's unprocessed papers at Chicago State University, and one of the first researchers to examine Bennett's collections at Emory University, this thesis sheds new light on the work of Bennett, on Ebony's significance as a 'history book' for millions of readers, and on the magazine's place at the centre of post-war debates into the form and function of African-American history.

This thesis is mainly concerned with uncovering the meanings and associations embedded in the field of popular culture production in Japanese and European sociocultural contexts, using a comparative approach to unearth the effects, materials, and paradigms of the technological and scientific discourses during the Scientific Revolution. Linking the fields of the anthropology of technology and science, popular culture, and material culture studies, the thesis offers a historical overview of the development of machines and visual technologies in the Edo period, arguing that visuality is the key to delayering the cultural history of technology and science in Japanese popular culture, animation in particular. The objective of this work, therefore, is to look at the assemblage of the scientific, technological, and philosophical discourses to unveil the cultural processes between optical regimes, scientific practices, and popular culture. In its emphasis on the interconnectedness of visual technologies and the field of popular culture production, the thesis asserts that scientific development, particularly under the influence of the Scientific Revolution and Japanese Rangaku scholarship, is closely tied with the function of entertainment in Japanese society. With the understanding of technology as a total social phenomenon that interlocks the material and the symbolic in a complex network, which produces meanings and associations, the thesis further stresses the view that intellectual history cannot be separated from material culture studies; it also grapples with a number of existing scholarships on the history of science, particularly their inattentiveness to cultural histories in their historical surveys of scientific development. Finally, this work closely examines Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell and its sequels and the anime TV series Psycho-Pass to explore the tangled responses to the ideologies of the Euro-American mode of modernity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:35:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PedroEuricoRodrigues.pdf: 1072334 bytes, checksum: 53a843b1a068ab9f6e5f132dadeb7e81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho pretende utilizar e analisar a Internet como uma fonte para estudos sobre História da Cultura Escrita e da Leitura, que caracterizados pela aceleração do tempo e o pelo presentismo (HARTOG, 1996) propiciaram novas formas de ler e escrever na contemporaneidade. A partir dos comunicadores instantâneos (MIRC e MSN) e da rede social Orkut, foram mapeados e analisados novos protocolos de escrita e leitura entre os anos de 2001 e 2010, com destaque a novos mecanismos de sociabilidade que funcionam como mediadores para interação entre grupos que utilizam as redes sociais. Através do Orkut, o estudo centrou-se na análise de um grupo proveniente de uma comunidade intitulada Jovens Acima de 50 Anos , que após o encontro na rede social passou a se encontrar em eventos anuais presenciais entre os anos de 2 06 e 2010. Tal procedimento forneceu elementos para abordar aspectos da amizade no século XXI que caracterizam outras formas de sociabilidade no Tempo Presente. Nesta rede social - Orkut foi possível trabalhar as formas de construção de si e formas de musealização (HUYSSEN, 2000) do passado a partir da escrita de algumas mulheres participantes e que foram dadas a ler por meio dos seus álbuns e seus depoimentos disponíveis em forma digital. A interpretação desse material escrito e fotografado, disponível no Orkut, permitiu aproximações para pensar sobre o ato e as motivações para se relacionar entre si e para guardar/salvaguardar os materiais produzidos, nessa forma de suporte digital. Considerando sites e blogues como portadores de outros protocolos de leitura realizou-se uma análise mais concisa do blogue www.baudasil.blogspot.com, para perceber nessas novas escritas na rede, especialmente a presença dos diários pessoais na Internet. Foram discutidas as diferentes formas de exposição na rede e, mais detalhadamente, como o diário, passa de uma escrita de dentro para uma escrita de fora (CUNHA, 2009). Estes questionamentos são abordados na perspectiva da História do Tempo Presente, que possibilita pensarmos um passado-presente, onde os recuos e aproximações com as fontes são possibilitados pelas escolhas do historiador que problematiza este Presente

The diploma thesis is devoted to the analysis of anti-religious propaganda conducted by the Bolshevik government in the 1920s and 1930s on the example of materials published in the Bezbozhnik magazine. The work outlines the historical context of the Soviet anti-religious policy of the interwar period, and describes the activities of the main anti-religious organization, the League of Militant Atheists and its leader Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. Furthermore, the publishing activities of the League of Militant Atheists and the network of periodicals published by it are described. In its core the work focuses on the analysis of the main anti-religious periodical, which was the newspaper and later the magazine Bezbožnik. The basic methods of propaganda used by this periodical are described in connection with the propagandistic character of contemporary Soviet art. Special attention is paid to the illustrative material in the magazine, especially the anti-religious cartoon and its sources. The work is a contribution to understanding the functioning of communist totalitarian ideology and its influence in the media space.

The diploma thesis is devoted to the analysis of anti-religious propaganda conducted by the Bolshevik government in the 1920s and 1930s on the example of materials published in the Bezbozhnik magazine. The work outlines the historical context of the Soviet anti-religious policy of the interwar period, and describes the activities of the main anti-religious organization, the League of Militant Atheists and its leader Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. Furthermore, the publishing activities of the League of Militant Atheists and the network of periodicals published by it are described. In its core the work focuses on the analysis of the main anti-religious periodical, which was the newspaper and later the magazine Bezbožnik. The basic methods of propaganda used by this periodical are described in connection with the propagandistic character of contemporary Soviet art. Special attention is paid to the illustrative material in the magazine, especially the anti-religious cartoon and its sources. The work is a contribution to understanding the functioning of communist totalitarian ideology and its influence in the media space.

The expression ‘New Culture Movement’ was born in summer 1919, in the intersections of academic debate, political activism, media coverage and intellectual marketing strategies. I have traced the emergence of the phrase and the discourses around it, using sources like journals, newspapers, student essays, advertisements and conference protocols. The New Culture Movement was a buzzword, deployed by practically-minded but lesser-known intellectuals to promote agendas they had held long before its invention. Many notions we associate with the Movement until today already surrounded it in 1919: for example, that it was connected to the political protests of ‘May Fourth,’ and driven by star intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu. But closer scrutiny reveals that the New Culture Movement and its network of associations were a construct, an amalgam of newspaper stories and intellectual marketing ploys: the connection to May Fourth was created by newspapers; the intellectuals at the periphery drew upon Hu Shi’s and Chen Duxiu’s prestige to add glamour to their own agendas. Nevertheless, the New Culture Movement shaped China’s 20th century. As only some agendas could credibly be sold as the Movement, it catalysed the plethora of competing agendas that had emerged since the 19th century to tackle the challenges of a changed world order. The New Culture Movement later became a founding myth of ‘Modern China’ and was regarded as the obvious result of global trends towards ‘modernisation,’ which visionary intellectuals recognised. But more recent literature has decentred the Movement, noted a longer history of its ideas and the careerism of its participants. I drive this point further by showing that, at the Movement’s very core, were practically-minded business and marketing strategies, deployed by numerous, lesser-known actors. It was in this way that the course for 20th-century China and one of its founding myths was set.

Em nossa pesquisa analisamos os preâmbulos dos livros de história impressos em Portugal entre 1640-1680, dando atenção às práticas da escrita desses textos dedicatórias, cartas ao leitor, prólogos e licenças para a impressão. Os preâmbulos, como constatamos, têm a função retórica de exórdio da obra e, portanto, pretendem captar a benevolência, atenção e tornar o leitor dócil com relação à matéria do livro. Segundo os preceitos retóricos usados no século XVII, uma das maneiras para se atingir esses objetivos era falar sobre o assunto tratado adiante. Encontramos, então, nos prólogos dos livros de história, discursos sobre o que era a história naquele período, os quais confrontamos com o que diziam os tratados sobre esse mesmo gênero. Com isso, nos propomos a fazer uma história das práticas da escrita dos preâmbulos e dos preceitos do gênero histórico no século XVII. / In our research we analyze the preambles of the books on history printed in Portugal between 1640 and 1680, paying attention to the writing practices of these texts - dedications, letters to the reader, prologues and licenses for printing. The preambles, as we have seen, have the rhetorical function of exordium of the work and, therefore, seek to capture benevolence, attention and make the reader docile with regard to the matter of the book. According to the rhetorical precepts used in the seventeenth century, one of the ways to achieve these goals was to talk about the subject matter discussed below. We find, then, in the prologues of the history books, discourses on what history was in that period, which we confront with the treatises on the same genre. With this, we propose to make a history of the writing practices of preambles and precepts of the historical genre in the seventeenth century.

Em 1953, iniciou-se uma das campanhas de alfabetização para a população rural mais importantes e inovadoras da história da Colômbia. A Radio Sutatenza, uma emissora paroquial que havia criado as bases para um método de alfabetização através do rádio, encontrava condições políticas favoráveis para expandir sua cobertura a boa parte do território nacional. Os violentos confrontos partidários do mundo rural e uma suposta ameaça de expansão do comunismo convenceram a Igreja da urgência de alfabetizar e educar a população camponesa. Para isso, as autoridades eclesiásticas colombianas encontraram no governo nacional e nas agências de cooperação internacional seus principais aliados. Foi assim que se criou a Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO), uma instituição com uma estrutura burocrática capaz de implementar os programas educativos pelo rádio. A ACPO se organizava em torno de divisões especializadas em radiodifusão, produção editorial, formação de líderes e comunicação epistolar com a população camponesa vinculada a seus programas educativos, entre outras. Isso criou um fenômeno inédito de massificação da comunicação epistolar em meio à população camponesa. O objetivo desta pesquisa é aproximarmo-nos das dimensões, cartografias e fluxos de tal fenômeno, das formas e sentidos que ele adquiriu entre os camponeses recém-alfabetizados que empunhavam lápis e papel para comunicar-se com a emissora e, finalmente, da interação entre o rádio, os impressos e a correspondência. / In 1953, one of the most important and unprecedented literacy campaigns for rural population started in Colombia. Sutatenza Radio, a parish station that had created the basis for a literacy instruction method through the radio, was favored by political conditions that allowed the expansion of its coverage in the country. The violent partisan confrontations in rural areas and the threat of a possible spread of communism convinced the Church of the urgency to educate the rural population. In order to do this, the Colombian church hierarchy found in the national government and international cooperation agencies its main allies. Thus was how the ACPO (Popular and Cultural Action) was created. ACPO was an institution with a bureaucratic structure capable of implementing educational programs for radio. The ACPO was organized in departments that were specialized in broadcasting, publishing, training of leaders and epistolary communication with the rural population that was part of the educational programs. This created an unprecedented phenomenon of massification of epistolary communication in the rural population. The objective of this research is to approach the dimensions, mapping and flows of this phenomenon; the forms and meanings it acquired among the newly-literate peasants who took pencil and paper to communicate with the radio station; and finally, the interaction between radio, print and the exchange of letters.

Em 1953, iniciou-se uma das campanhas de alfabetização para a população rural mais importantes e inovadoras da história da Colômbia. A Radio Sutatenza, uma emissora paroquial que havia criado as bases para um método de alfabetização através do rádio, encontrava condições políticas favoráveis para expandir sua cobertura a boa parte do território nacional. Os violentos confrontos partidários do mundo rural e uma suposta ameaça de expansão do comunismo convenceram a Igreja da urgência de alfabetizar e educar a população camponesa. Para isso, as autoridades eclesiásticas colombianas encontraram no governo nacional e nas agências de cooperação internacional seus principais aliados. Foi assim que se criou a Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO), uma instituição com uma estrutura burocrática capaz de implementar os programas educativos pelo rádio. A ACPO se organizava em torno de divisões especializadas em radiodifusão, produção editorial, formação de líderes e comunicação epistolar com a população camponesa vinculada a seus programas educativos, entre outras. Isso criou um fenômeno inédito de massificação da comunicação epistolar em meio à população camponesa. O objetivo desta pesquisa é aproximarmo-nos das dimensões, cartografias e fluxos de tal fenômeno, das formas e sentidos que ele adquiriu entre os camponeses recém-alfabetizados que empunhavam lápis e papel para comunicar-se com a emissora e, finalmente, da interação entre o rádio, os impressos e a correspondência. / In 1953, one of the most important and unprecedented literacy campaigns for rural population started in Colombia. Sutatenza Radio, a parish station that had created the basis for a literacy instruction method through the radio, was favored by political conditions that allowed the expansion of its coverage in the country. The violent partisan confrontations in rural areas and the threat of a possible spread of communism convinced the Church of the urgency to educate the rural population. In order to do this, the Colombian church hierarchy found in the national government and international cooperation agencies its main allies. Thus was how the ACPO (Popular and Cultural Action) was created. ACPO was an institution with a bureaucratic structure capable of implementing educational programs for radio. The ACPO was organized in departments that were specialized in broadcasting, publishing, training of leaders and epistolary communication with the rural population that was part of the educational programs. This created an unprecedented phenomenon of massification of epistolary communication in the rural population. The objective of this research is to approach the dimensions, mapping and flows of this phenomenon; the forms and meanings it acquired among the newly-literate peasants who took pencil and paper to communicate with the radio station; and finally, the interaction between radio, print and the exchange of letters.