Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Religious Studies, 2006. / "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 26, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2291. Adviser: Stephen J. Stein.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-09-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:30:03Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_ra_me_fran_parcial.pdf: 71486 bytes, checksum: cf8681950575c3301e51dafa98d31b9d (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2015-06-25T13:00:42Z: goncalves_ra_me_fran_parcial.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-06-25T13:03:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000694188_20160101.pdf: 71281 bytes, checksum: 2463f2a5c7c3f7017f0245fbe51e1653 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2016-01-04T10:26:44Z: 000694188_20160101.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-01-04T10:28:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000694188.pdf: 1023948 bytes, checksum: b35d95f45f249cd2f9c9e18a7923a161 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A partir de meados do século XIII, uma série de religiosos cristãos das duas principais ordens mendicantes, franciscanos e dominicanos, passou a defender a importância de visitarem e descreverem pormenorizadamente os povos e as paisagens de terras localizadas além da cristandade, sobretudo as regiões do interior do continente asiático. Até então, descrições como essas eram depreciadas pelos religiosos por serem consideradas um conhecimento curioso, concebido como um saber que não contribuía para o aperfeiçoamento espiritual do cristão, sendo, portanto, repreensível e desprezível. O novo interesse por essas terras se devia, em grande parte, a informações e notícias difundidas na cristandade que davam conta da existência de homens orientais muito diferentes dos já conhecidos, que dominavam um império de proporções grandiosas. Muitos homens partiram, assim, em viagem para aquelas terras com a finalidade de observar povos e lugares para elaborarem uma descrição detalhada dos costumes dos povos avistados, do itinerário percorrido e de tudo aquilo que eles puderam ver ou ouvir. A proposta central de nossa pesquisa é perceber como se realizou esse processo em que o continente asiático foi-se tornando alvo do interesse ocidental entre os séculos XIII e XIV, passando a ser o protagonista de numerosos relatos de viagem que se propunham a descrever em pormenores suas características físicas e os traços e costumes de suas populações. A partir das descrições produzidas pelos viajantes, procuramos investigar como os frades mendicants encontraram um lugar para o conhecimento das ―partes orientais‖ no seu projeto de aperfeiçoamento e expansão da fé para terras distantes / From amidst XIIIth century, a series of religious from the most important Mendicant Orders, Franciscans and Dominicans, started to defend the relevancy of visit and describe the people and places of the lands outside the Christendom, especially those which were located inwards the Asiatic mainland. Theretofore, descriptions as these were depreciated by the religious ones, thought as a ken which couldn‘t contribute to the spiritual improvement of the Christians, being, this way, a blamable and misfortunate way of knowledge. A new interest for these lands was thanks to the informations and news broadcasted through the Christendom, narrating the existence of very different eastern men, masterful of a great Empire. Many men started to travel to these lands, intending to observe the people and the places to, in the end, write about the eastern habits, the routes themselves crossed, and whatever else could be seen or heard. The main purpose of this research it‘s in realize how this process – where the Asiatic mainland became the aim of western interest, between the XIII and XIVth centuries – could happen. In other words, we intent to see how those people and places became the protagonists of a countless travel reports where their physical and cultural characteristics were described. Through the descriptions made by the travelers, we want to understand how the Mendicant Friars could found a place to the knowledge of the ―eastern parts‖ into their project of faith‘s improvement and proliferation on faraway lands

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 narita_fz_me_fran.pdf: 1235959 bytes, checksum: 7525828c75f08d220c2840a27d67ffd3 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este trabalho pretende investigar alguns traços da concepção de história veiculada pelos compêndios destinados à formação da infância no Brasil imperial. Analisando as obras escritas pelo cônego Joaquim Caetano Fernandes Pinheiro (1825-1876) – impressos largamente utilizados nas escolas primárias, secundárias e normais entre os anos 1860 e 1880 –, pretende-se indicar de que modo as narrativas de história do cônego apresentavam aos jovens engenhos um tempo histórico para o Império, fundamentando as virtudes do governo do presente. Ao organizar fatos, datas e “grandes homens” em lições destinadas especificamente ao ensino da infância, as obras de Fernandes Pinheiro diluem a escrita da história em uma narrativa cujo enredo é orientado pela centralidade da religião na civilização do trópico (com a narrativa situada numa temporalidade, não raro, marcada pela interferência da Providência no curso dos eventos), construindo o tempo histórico na projeção de uma origem virtuosa que se desdobra como um continuum no presente imperial necessário para o governo moral e político de uma nação. Trata-se, também, de articular a escrita da história do cônego com os traços estruturais do processo de construção do saber escolar por meio da gradativa formação de uma cultura escolar à luz do papel fundamental desempenhado pela cultura letrada dos impressos nas salas de aula do Império / The research intends to investigate some aspects concerning the conception of history in nineteenth-century Brazilian textbooks by analyzing the works of canon Joaquim Caetano Fernandes Pinheiro (Rio de Janeiro, 1825 – Rio de Janeiro, 1876) – books widely distributed to schools between the early 1860s and the late 1880s. This work aims to point out how Fernandes Pinheiro’s narratives of history presented to the children and young students a historical time for Brazilian Empire by justifying the virtues of the government of the present. Canon Fernandes Pinheiro’s narratives, by organizing dates, facts and the “great men”, compose a writing of history based upon the major role played by religion for the civilization in the tropics (with a temporality sometimes guided by the presence of the Providence in the course of events) – conception that implies the formation of historical time in the projection of a virtuous origin which takes the Imperial present as a continuum, a necessary phase (justified by history) for the moral and political government of the nation

A intenção deste trabalho é apresentar uma ferramenta relativamente nova no cenário da Educação formal para um tema igualmente novo no cenário do ensino de História. Nesta dissertação foi realizada uma pesquisa para descrever como histórias em quadrinhos e História das Religiões se relacionam e podem ser utilizadas em sala de aula para produção de conhecimento. A pesquisa buscou em programas do governo federal e na Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional o fundamento para a necessidade de aprofundamento e uso deste tema e ferramenta na sala de aula. Fazendo um levantamento histórico do uso dos quadrinhos na Educação e da forma como ensino de História das Religiões é apresentado em sala de aula, principalmente pelos livros didáticos do ensino fundamental e médio. Por fim, apresentam-se modelos de atividades que podem ser utilizadas pelo docente para desconstruir pré-conceitos que estereotipam e distorcem a religião e auxiliam numa construção que visa conceitos de tolerância e alteridade. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-06-21T13:06:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Daniel Clos Cesar.pdf: 3362563 bytes, checksum: eb06fbadb45388b1a1ef5688972b74d3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-21T13:06:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Daniel Clos Cesar.pdf: 3362563 bytes, checksum: eb06fbadb45388b1a1ef5688972b74d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-21 / La intención de este trabajo es presentar una herramienta relativamente nueva en el ámbito de la educación formal de un tema igual de nuevo en la enseñanza de ajuste de la historia. En esta tesis se realizó una encuesta para describir cómo los cómics y Historia de las religiones están relacionados y se pueden utilizar en el aula para la producción de conocimiento. La investigación buscó en los programas del gobierno federal y Ley de Directrices y Bases de la Educación Nacional de las bases para la necesidad de seguir y utilizar este tema y una herramienta en el aula. Haciendo un repaso histórico de la utilización de los cómics en la educación y cómo las religiones de enseñanza de la historia se presenta en el salón de clases, especialmente los libros de texto de educación primaria y secundaria. Por último, se presentan actividades de plantillas que pueden ser utilizadas por los maestros para deconstruir las ideas preconcebidas que estereotipo y distorsionar la religión y ayudar en la construcción destinada a los conceptos de tolerancia y la alteridad.

Esta Dissertação de Mestrado descreve o nascimento, a inserção e o desenvolvimento das religiões não Católicas em solo brasileiro. Discorre, entre as que estão em maior evidência, sobre suas doutrinas e práticas fundamentais. Por outro lado, analisa a produção científica brasileira sobre a temática, ocorrida entre 1900 e 2000, através de um balanço bibliográfico. Procura, assim, verificar quais religiões foram mais estudadas pela comunidade científica, bem como as lacunas existentes. / This Master thesis describes the birth, insertion and development of the noncatholic religions in the Brazilian territory. It concerns about the dogmas and basic practices of the most popular ones. On the other hand, it analyses the Brazilian scientific production about such issue between 1900 and 2000, through a bybliographic research. Thus far, this text aims to verify which religions were studied the most by the scientific community, as well as the blanks left by them.

A intenção deste trabalho é apresentar uma ferramenta relativamente nova no cenário da Educação formal para um tema igualmente novo no cenário do ensino de História. Nesta dissertação foi realizada uma pesquisa para descrever como histórias em quadrinhos e História das Religiões se relacionam e podem ser utilizadas em sala de aula para produção de conhecimento. A pesquisa buscou em programas do governo federal e na Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional o fundamento para a necessidade de aprofundamento e uso deste tema e ferramenta na sala de aula. Fazendo um levantamento histórico do uso dos quadrinhos na Educação e da forma como ensino de História das Religiões é apresentado em sala de aula, principalmente pelos livros didáticos do ensino fundamental e médio. Por fim, apresentam-se modelos de atividades que podem ser utilizadas pelo docente para desconstruir pré-conceitos que estereotipam e distorcem a religião e auxiliam numa construção que visa conceitos de tolerância e alteridade. / La intención de este trabajo es presentar una herramienta relativamente nueva en el ámbito de la educación formal de un tema igual de nuevo en la enseñanza de ajuste de la historia. En esta tesis se realizó una encuesta para describir cómo los cómics y Historia de las religiones están relacionados y se pueden utilizar en el aula para la producción de conocimiento. La investigación buscó en los programas del gobierno federal y Ley de Directrices y Bases de la Educación Nacional de las bases para la necesidad de seguir y utilizar este tema y una herramienta en el aula. Haciendo un repaso histórico de la utilización de los cómics en la educación y cómo las religiones de enseñanza de la historia se presenta en el salón de clases, especialmente los libros de texto de educación primaria y secundaria. Por último, se presentan actividades de plantillas que pueden ser utilizadas por los maestros para deconstruir las ideas preconcebidas que estereotipo y distorsionar la religión y ayudar en la construcción destinada a los conceptos de tolerancia y la alteridad.

The thesis explores the intersection between medicine and religion in the context of colonisation in Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I will focus on the work of medical missionaries from Europe and North America that pursued perfect cleanliness in body, mind and society, including total abstinence and spiritual cleanliness, by spreading biomedical concept of hygiene. One of the points that I will articulate is the ways in which medicine as a colonising force in its own right worked in the mission field to produce 'the docile bodies of people' in the Foucauldian sense. I will argue that what mission medicine in Korea utilised and relied on for its work was a new concept of cleanliness based on biomedical knowledge, the germ theory, rather than the power of colonisation. It was because mission medicine in Korea often worked without collaborating with direct colonial powers. In this sense, Protestant Christianity and biomedicine shared a common foundation in 'cleanliness.' Consequently, I will try to emphasise the multi-dimensional and multi-directional role of the use of cleanliness as an efficacious tool for control of the body. In relation to the historiography of medicine in Korea, I will argue that Confucianism served the social and cultural control of bodies as a medicalised form and that Christianity tried to replace it by providing new knowledge concerning body, disease, health, and cleanliness. In the same respect, I will explore the historical relationship between the germ theory and missionary medicine in Korea. The germ theories of disease were not simply a new etiology but also an effective cultural implement to change people's lives. Thus, the theories did not simply remain in the realm of medicine but were introduced, disseminated, and applied to all matters relating to the body, including its mental and spiritual aspects, through the concept of cleanliness.

Across medieval Europe, the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain traced a lattice web of popular culture. From the lowest peasant to the greatest king and churchmen, the devout walked pathways that created an economy and contributed to a social and political climate of change. Central to this impulse of piety and wanderlust was the veneration of the Virgin Mary. She was, however, not the iconic Mother of the New Testament whose character, actions, and very name are nearly absent from that first-century compilation of texts. As characterized in the words of popular songs and tales, the mariales, she was a robust saint who performed acts of healing that exceeded those miracles of Jesus described in the Bible. Unafraid and authoritative, she confronted demons and provided judgement that reached beyond the understanding and mercy of medieval codes of law. Holding out the promise of protection from physical and spiritual harm, she attracted denizens of admirers who included poets, minstrels, and troubadours like Nigel of Canterbury, John of Garland, Gonzalo de Berceo, and Gautier de Coinci. They popularized her cult across Europe; pilgrims sang their songs and celebrated the new attributes of Mary. This dissertation uses the greatest collection of these songs, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria compiled in the thirteenth century under the direction of Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, to construct the history of a lay piety movement deeply rooted in medieval popular culture. Making the transition from institutionalized, doctrinal saint to popular heroine, Mary becomes a subversive conduit through which culture moved from Latin poetry to vernacular verse and from the monasteries of scholasticism to the popular pathway of Wycliffite reform.

With the momentum of previous Emperors, Haile Selassie steered Ethiopia on the path to modernization. One of his greatest obstacles was the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), which, being steeped in sixteen centuries of tradition, was accustomed to being the primary hegemonic power. Pierre Bourdieu's generative structuralism will be employed in this thesis to analyze the EOC's symbolic power as well as Selassie's efforts to dispossess the Church of its cultural power and make it an arm of the state. Controlling the rural periphery of Ethiopia, however meant introducing the basic structures of modernity to ethnic groups who had historically resisted Selassie's Amharic culture. Selassie permitted foreign missions, such as the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) and Swedish Evangelical Mission (SEM), to function as his subcontractors for civilization by building schools, establishing medical stations, and evangelizing the non-Orthodox populations. Selassie failed to anticipate how mission structures contributed to the formation of resistant identities for Maale and Oromo converts. In analyzing these processes, the thesis also employs Robin Horton's theory of conversion while refuting Horton's broader claim about the superficiality of Christianity in Africa. / Religion

Spiritualism was a popular cultural movement that flourished in the late-19th century across the United States and eventually Europe. While there were many facets of its philosophy, the primary conviction behind Spiritualism was that spirits of the dead could communicate with the living through human mediums. Although this basic definition of Spiritualism is virtually uncontested in contemporary scholarship, the cultural causes of the movement remain a highly debated topic. Historians have proposed a variety of theories for Spiritualism's inception, but none have yet to explore the economic motivations behind the movement. Spiritualism was, in fact, a vital commercial enterprise that spurred entrepreneurial and consumption opportunities for thousands of nascent capitalists. During the movement's prime, a host of Spiritualist merchandise was mass produced and marketed, including talking boards, spirit photographs, séances, and planchettes. Together, these products were produced and consumed in what became an "economy of the supernatural"--a thriving industry based on the desire to communicate with deceased humans. Through analysis of product advertisements and opinions raised about the issue found in mass media, this thesis will demonstrate that economic motivation was behind every aspect of Spiritualist practice. No part of the movement was left untouched by the desire for financial gain. Furthermore, this thesis argues that while various cultural forces influencing Spiritualism would diminish over time, the movement was able to sustain itself through the development of an economy of supernatural products and services, many of which continue to be produced to this very day. / History