Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1941. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-171).

O trabalho aborda a Festa de São Benedito realizada no município de Ilhabela (litoral norte de São Paulo). A partir da atuação em roteiro e pesquisa no documentário Sobre a Congada de Ilhabela (Eduardo Kishimoto, TV-USP, 2004 2010) a presente etnografia busca dar conta dos vestígios históricos que se encontram no entrecho procurando iluminar as relações que se apresentam imbricadas na Festa. Esta abordagem move-se em frentes que procuram dar conta, de um lado, dos eventos supostamente ocorridos referenciados na Congada, e de outro lado, das reverberações em conflitos e tensões vividos em Ilhabela atualmente. Toma-se a Congada enquanto uma convenção, um resultado de diversas indexações produzidas pela prática seus agentes ao longo dos últimos trezentos anos. A Congada representa os conflitos entre mouros e cristãos. A encenação fala de guerra enquanto o contexto no qual se encena apresenta-se em forma de festa. Existe, portanto, uma complementaridade entre o contexto representado e o contexto no qual se representa. / This paper addresses the St. Benedicts Feast yearly held in the municipality of Ilhabela (north coast of São Paulo). From the screenplay and research activities in the documentary Sobre a Congada de Ilhabela (About Ilhabelas Congada) (Eduardo Kishimoto, TV-USP, 2004 2010) this ethnography investigates some historical remains found in the plot looking to illuminate the intertwined relationships that are present in the St. Benedicts Feast. This approach moves in fronts to try to make sense on the one hand, the events allegedly occurred and referenced in the Congada, and on the other hand, the reverberations of conflicts and tensions experienced in Ilhabela today. We take the Congada as a convention, a result of several indexing agents produced by the practice over the last three hundred years. The Congada represents the conflict between Moors and Christians. The staging speaks of war while the context in which it comes is presented as party. Therefore, there is a complementarity between the impersonated context and the context in which it represents.

O trabalho aborda a Festa de São Benedito realizada no município de Ilhabela (litoral norte de São Paulo). A partir da atuação em roteiro e pesquisa no documentário Sobre a Congada de Ilhabela (Eduardo Kishimoto, TV-USP, 2004 2010) a presente etnografia busca dar conta dos vestígios históricos que se encontram no entrecho procurando iluminar as relações que se apresentam imbricadas na Festa. Esta abordagem move-se em frentes que procuram dar conta, de um lado, dos eventos supostamente ocorridos referenciados na Congada, e de outro lado, das reverberações em conflitos e tensões vividos em Ilhabela atualmente. Toma-se a Congada enquanto uma convenção, um resultado de diversas indexações produzidas pela prática seus agentes ao longo dos últimos trezentos anos. A Congada representa os conflitos entre mouros e cristãos. A encenação fala de guerra enquanto o contexto no qual se encena apresenta-se em forma de festa. Existe, portanto, uma complementaridade entre o contexto representado e o contexto no qual se representa. / This paper addresses the St. Benedicts Feast yearly held in the municipality of Ilhabela (north coast of São Paulo). From the screenplay and research activities in the documentary Sobre a Congada de Ilhabela (About Ilhabelas Congada) (Eduardo Kishimoto, TV-USP, 2004 2010) this ethnography investigates some historical remains found in the plot looking to illuminate the intertwined relationships that are present in the St. Benedicts Feast. This approach moves in fronts to try to make sense on the one hand, the events allegedly occurred and referenced in the Congada, and on the other hand, the reverberations of conflicts and tensions experienced in Ilhabela today. We take the Congada as a convention, a result of several indexing agents produced by the practice over the last three hundred years. The Congada represents the conflict between Moors and Christians. The staging speaks of war while the context in which it comes is presented as party. Therefore, there is a complementarity between the impersonated context and the context in which it represents.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes abstract. Appendix: A ritual of group grieving -- Kairos: a ritual honoring common ground -- Rite for completion of reconciliation of groups -- Rite of reconciliation: a day of atonement -- Reconciliation rite for impasse -- Rituals of transition: a week of farewell for parish closure -- Rite of leavetaking of a church -- Rites for inauguration of a newly consolidated parish -- Rites of reception and memorial of the closed parish with a blessing of the foundation stone ... Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-337).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes abstract. Appendix: A ritual of group grieving -- Kairos: a ritual honoring common ground -- Rite for completion of reconciliation of groups -- Rite of reconciliation: a day of atonement -- Reconciliation rite for impasse -- Rituals of transition: a week of farewell for parish closure -- Rite of leavetaking of a church -- Rites for inauguration of a newly consolidated parish -- Rites of reception and memorial of the closed parish with a blessing of the foundation stone ... Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-337).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes abstract. Appendix: A ritual of group grieving -- Kairos: a ritual honoring common ground -- Rite for completion of reconciliation of groups -- Rite of reconciliation: a day of atonement -- Reconciliation rite for impasse -- Rituals of transition: a week of farewell for parish closure -- Rite of leavetaking of a church -- Rites for inauguration of a newly consolidated parish -- Rites of reception and memorial of the closed parish with a blessing of the foundation stone ... Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-337).

The target of this thesis was to identify mass graves in the cemetery around the former St. Benedict Church in Prague dated after 1635 and to determine, by means of dental epigenetic traits, if there is a biological relation among selected groups of mass graves and if they belong to one population. The analysis of the archaeology-anthropologic documentation was the essential part of this thesis. By this analysis it was possible to identify mass graves and to combine them to higher groups according to the following criteria: a location of the mass grave at the cemetery, a position of individual burials in the mass graves, the burial way and artefacts found. The previous research made by the French-Czech team, namely radiocarbon dating of several graves, was also supportive. The actual investigation of the biological relation (similarity) of individuals from mass graves was carried out by means of dental epigenetic traits. These traits were evaluated according to verbal description and plaster casts of teeth (Turner at al. 1991). The following statistical methods were used for the evaluation: a measure of divergence and the mean measure of divergence stating the unlikeness of probability occurrence of corresponding features. The relation of individuals, from mass graves, and French and Austro-Hungarian...

A dynamic interpretation of the Prayer of St. Benedict provides a methodology for understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with enduring elements in the theological tradition and meaningful to the contemporary milieu. Within the overarching structure of the Prayer as a meta-paradigm, are three subsidiary paradigms that describe characteristics of approaches to faith. The structure, content, and intention of the Prayer reveal these to be experiential, critical, and transcendental. Wisdom is asserted as integrating and orienting the discussion, which is a constructed on a Personalist foundation and is a postcritical reflection on faith. Faith is grounded in the affirmations and assumptions of faith, discerned in the enfolding appeals, and the supplications, a basis for an expository discourse on the dimensions of faith. / Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

A dynamic interpretation of the Prayer of St. Benedict provides a methodology for understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with enduring elements in the theological tradition and meaningful to the contemporary milieu. Within the overarching structure of the Prayer as a meta-paradigm, are three subsidiary paradigms that describe characteristics of approaches to faith. The structure, content, and intention of the Prayer reveal these to be experiential, critical, and transcendental. Wisdom is asserted as integrating and orienting the discussion, which is a constructed on a Personalist foundation and is a postcritical reflection on faith. Faith is grounded in the affirmations and assumptions of faith, discerned in the enfolding appeals, and the supplications, a basis for an expository discourse on the dimensions of faith. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Ideas of kinship play a significant role in structuring everyday life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, as well as moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of ‘family,’ but little regard has been paid to the fact that kinship is not a given, but is culturally contingent. The thesis seeks to remedy the neglect in recent Christian theological ethics by drawing on resources from the history of Christian thought and practice. It uses social anthropology both to unsettle the accounts of kinship used in Christian ethics, and to expose elements in Christian traditions of thought and practice relating to kinship. Notions of shared bodily substance, the house, gender and personhood recur cross-culturally in giving shape to kinship. By examining these four notions as they inform Christian thought and practice, a theological account is developed. Chapters dedicated to each of these four attempt to provide, in the first instance, a descriptive account of how the notion has structured Christian thought and practice in relation to kinship. Each chapter then turns, in the second instance, to a critical mode, offering a theological treatment of the chapter topic as it bears on kinship. The thesis concludes that kinship in Christ should be considered normatively primary for the Christian, but also that there are ways in which Christians have honoured this kinship in Christ by organising and playing out kinship on a smaller scale. In detailing the distinctively Christian organising principles that structure some practices of kinship ‘in miniature,’ another common practice – the special privileging of the blood tie in structuring kinship – is singled out for critique.