In 1918, Archbishop Shaw invited the Texas Catholic religious order, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to New Orleans to manage the St. Louis Cathedral and its filial parish for Southern Italians, St. Mary’s Church. This thesis will look at the personalities and preferentialism that affected this early 20th century transfer of religious power from secular priests to a religious order. Comparing the language used by Archbishop Shaw in correspondence with Oblate Fathers with the language he used with his secular priests will determine that Shaw displayed favoritism in his decision to invite the Oblates. This decision was affected by four primary factors: Shaw’s prior relationship with the Oblates as Bishop of San Antonio, his concerns with archdiocesan finances, his perceived threat of encroaching Protestantism, and politics of discontent amongst his secular clergy. Shaw’s distinct idealistic pragmatism shows the dynamic nature of the institution of the Catholic Church in Louisiana.

The question of religion has caused much strife among mankind in the past, and even the present is not without its spiritual prejudices. In any phase of life the individual who departs too far from the accepted order is almost certain to be brought up sharply against the criticism and even ridicule of his contemporaries. Alexander Campbell is no exception to this rule. His life was one of strife and conflict in the field of religion. His leadership in the “Reformation Movement” of the early Nineteenth Century has left an indelible impression upon the minds of thousands of men and women.

Qual a conduta idealizada de um professor? Como se engendrou a maneira de atuar nas salas de aula e fora delas? Como foram estabelecidos os parâmetros de um governo eficiente do alunado? Autoridade, disciplina, cuidado com o grupo, instrução e conhecimento, didática e retórica, comportamento exemplar e moral ilibada: estes seriam alguns dos atributos necessários que despontariam em uma rápida reflexão sobre um professor idealizado. Tendo tal horizonte temático em vista, esta dissertação intenta problematizar a formatação da ética docente por meio de tais predicados, partindo do pressuposto de que a associação entre eles foi constituída historicamente, em resposta a demandas do século XIX. Para tanto, foram escolhidos quatro dispositivos empregados reiteradamente no cotidiano escolar com vistas ao controle de suas populações: a normatização e a vigilância das populações, o cuidado de si e a moralização dos costumes. A pesquisa levada a cabo desdobra quatro correlatos aos dispositivos acima citados, produzidos no interior de instituições católicas e incorporados, mais tarde, como práticas escolares laicas. São eles: a disciplinarização do sacerdócio via normatização escolar; a preparação eclesial ao pastorado; o aumento exponencial da aplicação do sacramento da confissão; e o ascetismo como comportamento de referência. Deste modo, optou-se por entender o funcionamento desses dispositivos, assim como sua emergência, de acordo com enfrentamentos que o corpo eclesial encarou no período das explosões das revoluções, da escalada hegemônica da ciência e da preponderância do secularismo. Uma das conclusões do presente trabalho é a de que, dentre várias práticas de religiosidade existentes no século XVIII (como o jansenismo e o regalismo), a que priorizou um missionarismo de base apostólica e educacional foi a preponderante na centúria seguinte, assumindo o papel de regeneradora da Igreja e de principal forma de exercício do poder da Santa Sé sobre suas populações. Tratava-se de fortalecê-la diante do desmanche das sociedades soberanas e dos questionamentos vigorosos acerca da tradição cristã. Para a Santa Sé, a educação parece ter sido a opção estratégica para manter sua autoridade sobre o mundo ocidental, ajudando a fazê-la transitar de um governo primordialmente soberano para outro mais adaptado aos embates com os Estados nacionais e com os enunciados científicos. Ao discutir a educação confessional propriamente dita, foram privilegiados como nossos objetos de estudo manuais de conduta sacerdotal bem como algumas encíclicas papais. Foi-nos considerado mais apropriado um esforço de diálogo metodológico, ao longo deste trabalho, com a perspectiva genealógica consagrada por Michel Foucault. / Which is the idealized conduct of a teacher? How the method of acting in the classroom and beyond was conceived? How the parameters for effective governance of the student were established? Authority, discipline, care with the group, instruction and knowledge, didactics and rhetoric, exemplar behavior and virtuous moral. These are some of the attributes that would emerge in a fast reflection about an ideal teacher. Taking this thematic horizon in mind, this dissertation aims to revise the shaping of the teaching ethics through such predicates, on the assumption that the association between them was formed historically in response to demands of the nineteenth century. For this we selected four devices repeatedly employed in the school quotidian in order to control their populations: the normalization and surveillance of populations, the care of the self and the moralization of the customs. The research develop four breaks related to the devices mentioned above, produced within Catholic institutions and incorporated later, as a lay school practice. They are: the disciplining of the priesthood by school normalization; the ecclesiastic preparation to the pastoral power, the exponential increase in the application of the sacrament of confession; and the asceticism as a reference behavior. Thus, we chose to understand the operation of these devices, as well as their appearance, according with the confrontations the ecclesial corporation faced during the explosion of the revolutions, the hegemonic rise of the science and the preponderance of the secularism. One of the conclusions of the present work is that among various practices of piety in the eighteenth century (such as Jansenism and Galicanism), the one that emphasized a missionarism with an apostolic and educational root, was predominant in the next century, assuming the role of regenerative Church and the main form of exercise the power of the Holy See on their populations. This strengthened it against the disorganization of the sovereign societies and the strenuous questionings about the Christian traditions. To the Holy See, the education seems to have been a strategic alternative in preserving its authority over the western world, helping to make it move from a primarily sovereign government to another more suited to clashes with the national states and the scientific statements. When we discuss the confessional education itself, the object of our study were the sacerdotal conduct manuals and some pope encyclicals. Throughout this work, we considered more appropriate a methodological dialogue with a genealogical and established perspective by Michel Foucault.

Qual a conduta idealizada de um professor? Como se engendrou a maneira de atuar nas salas de aula e fora delas? Como foram estabelecidos os parâmetros de um governo eficiente do alunado? Autoridade, disciplina, cuidado com o grupo, instrução e conhecimento, didática e retórica, comportamento exemplar e moral ilibada: estes seriam alguns dos atributos necessários que despontariam em uma rápida reflexão sobre um professor idealizado. Tendo tal horizonte temático em vista, esta dissertação intenta problematizar a formatação da ética docente por meio de tais predicados, partindo do pressuposto de que a associação entre eles foi constituída historicamente, em resposta a demandas do século XIX. Para tanto, foram escolhidos quatro dispositivos empregados reiteradamente no cotidiano escolar com vistas ao controle de suas populações: a normatização e a vigilância das populações, o cuidado de si e a moralização dos costumes. A pesquisa levada a cabo desdobra quatro correlatos aos dispositivos acima citados, produzidos no interior de instituições católicas e incorporados, mais tarde, como práticas escolares laicas. São eles: a disciplinarização do sacerdócio via normatização escolar; a preparação eclesial ao pastorado; o aumento exponencial da aplicação do sacramento da confissão; e o ascetismo como comportamento de referência. Deste modo, optou-se por entender o funcionamento desses dispositivos, assim como sua emergência, de acordo com enfrentamentos que o corpo eclesial encarou no período das explosões das revoluções, da escalada hegemônica da ciência e da preponderância do secularismo. Uma das conclusões do presente trabalho é a de que, dentre várias práticas de religiosidade existentes no século XVIII (como o jansenismo e o regalismo), a que priorizou um missionarismo de base apostólica e educacional foi a preponderante na centúria seguinte, assumindo o papel de regeneradora da Igreja e de principal forma de exercício do poder da Santa Sé sobre suas populações. Tratava-se de fortalecê-la diante do desmanche das sociedades soberanas e dos questionamentos vigorosos acerca da tradição cristã. Para a Santa Sé, a educação parece ter sido a opção estratégica para manter sua autoridade sobre o mundo ocidental, ajudando a fazê-la transitar de um governo primordialmente soberano para outro mais adaptado aos embates com os Estados nacionais e com os enunciados científicos. Ao discutir a educação confessional propriamente dita, foram privilegiados como nossos objetos de estudo manuais de conduta sacerdotal bem como algumas encíclicas papais. Foi-nos considerado mais apropriado um esforço de diálogo metodológico, ao longo deste trabalho, com a perspectiva genealógica consagrada por Michel Foucault. / Which is the idealized conduct of a teacher? How the method of acting in the classroom and beyond was conceived? How the parameters for effective governance of the student were established? Authority, discipline, care with the group, instruction and knowledge, didactics and rhetoric, exemplar behavior and virtuous moral. These are some of the attributes that would emerge in a fast reflection about an ideal teacher. Taking this thematic horizon in mind, this dissertation aims to revise the shaping of the teaching ethics through such predicates, on the assumption that the association between them was formed historically in response to demands of the nineteenth century. For this we selected four devices repeatedly employed in the school quotidian in order to control their populations: the normalization and surveillance of populations, the care of the self and the moralization of the customs. The research develop four breaks related to the devices mentioned above, produced within Catholic institutions and incorporated later, as a lay school practice. They are: the disciplining of the priesthood by school normalization; the ecclesiastic preparation to the pastoral power, the exponential increase in the application of the sacrament of confession; and the asceticism as a reference behavior. Thus, we chose to understand the operation of these devices, as well as their appearance, according with the confrontations the ecclesial corporation faced during the explosion of the revolutions, the hegemonic rise of the science and the preponderance of the secularism. One of the conclusions of the present work is that among various practices of piety in the eighteenth century (such as Jansenism and Galicanism), the one that emphasized a missionarism with an apostolic and educational root, was predominant in the next century, assuming the role of regenerative Church and the main form of exercise the power of the Holy See on their populations. This strengthened it against the disorganization of the sovereign societies and the strenuous questionings about the Christian traditions. To the Holy See, the education seems to have been a strategic alternative in preserving its authority over the western world, helping to make it move from a primarily sovereign government to another more suited to clashes with the national states and the scientific statements. When we discuss the confessional education itself, the object of our study were the sacerdotal conduct manuals and some pope encyclicals. Throughout this work, we considered more appropriate a methodological dialogue with a genealogical and established perspective by Michel Foucault.

In Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and the concern of Psychology of Ultimate Concern, Robert Emmons develops a case for spirituality as a form of intelligence. His thesis claims that spiritual intelligence is a “set of capacities and abilities that enable people to solve problems and attain goals in their everyday lives”: “the capacity for transcendence; the ability to enter into heightened spiritual states of consciousness; the ability to invest everyday activities, events, and relationships with a sense of the sacred; the ability to utilize spiritual resources to solve problems in living; and the capacity to engage in virtuous behavior. I use spiritual intelligence and these frameworks throughout to address these common themes within the Black community beginning in the Second Great Awakening. I use these five components to illuminate the rise of the revolutionary streams of Spiritual Intelligence within unique works of two Black activists: David Walker and Maria Stewart. I then contextualize these developments in the experiences of my family and my own experiences as a Black activist. I argue for the recognition of religious thinking and illustrate the structural embodiment of this form of spiritual intelligence through multiple generations of Black Activism. I argue that Spiritual Intelligence is one way this particular community fights adversity in greater America society. In valuing religion through understanding these actions of resistance black activism is realized in the larger epistemic landscape. Particularly arguing against the secularization of resistance and activism.

This thesis examines how Jews of the Ottoman Empire responded to newfound opportunities that emerged across the domains of the late Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century due to the Ottoman bureaucratic reforms (Tanzimat). It challenges the discourses that argue that Jews engaged probing issues such as nationalism in a monolithic fashion. Rather, Sephardi and Arab Jews, based on socioeconomic status and geographic location in the Empire approached questions of affiliation with the Empire or attachment to new forms of nationalism based on divergent structures that informed their lives and personal political choices. This project explores the main avenues that Jews in the Ottoman world used to approach questions that animated the public discourse not just of Jews, but of peoples across the globe who struggled to find new avenues for belonging in shifting geopolitical terrains. For Jewish communities in the Ottoman world, four dominant avenues and attitudes emerged: traditionalists who desired to maintain the status quo; those who sought an Ottoman or Turkish Republican future; Sephardi Zionists who believed they were integral to Ottoman communal history; provincial nationalists who agitated for distinct regional identities. The thesis also briefly examines the Armenian millet’s socio-political situation during the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to show the ways in which the Jewish millet was both in tandem with broader nationalist discourses but were also less cohesively politically organized than other millets in the Empire.

Ethnicity, religion, class, and gender are important elements in determining the cultural texture of society. This study examines these components at an important junction in the history of the Pacific Northwest through the lives of students enrolled in two girls’ schools established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDN) in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s. These girls, predominantly métis daughters of fur-trade settlers and their Indian wives, along with their Irish and Anglo-American classmates, represent the socioeconomic and cultural transformation of the region as the mixing that gave rise to the unique intermediary culture referred to as “fur-trade society” succumbed to American political and social domination. The primary interest of this study is the process of acculturation facilitated by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and the effect of this acculturation on the métis students. By using a sample of students drawn from the 1850 United States Federal Census of the Oregon Territory, documents relating to the fur trade, Catholic Missions, and early settlement, and standard genealogical and biographical sources, this study compares the two SNDN schools through an analysis of their academic and cultural purposes and ethnic lineage, socioeconomic class, and religious affiliation of other students. Furthermore, as a test of the success of their religious training and acculturation, this study examines the socioeconomic and ethnic characteristics of marriage partners and the students’ religious affiliation as adults, and looks for evidence of métis ethic identity. The resulting analysis uncovers a two-tier system of education that mirrored the bipartite social structure of fur trade: the SNDN tailored the educational offerings at the two schools to serve the different needs of their discrete populations of settlers. Subsequent to their schooling, servant class métis girls most often retained paternal religious and ethnic ties, while officer class daughters show less attachments to their Catholic religious roots and chose more ethnically diverse spouses. Finally, the exogamous martial patterns of both groups discount the presence of strong métis ethic identity.

In the one-hundred years between 1810 and 1926 there were many civil wars in Mexico. The last of these wars. La Cristiada, was not fought, as were the previous civil wars, by groups seeking political control of Mexico. Rather, the genesis of this war was a question of who would control the Church in Mexico. The war began when President Plutarco Elias Calles attempted to enforce rigorously certain articles of the Constitution of 1917 as well as two laws which he promulgated. If Calles had succeeded, he would, in fact, have created a church in Mexico controlled by the federal government. The material to support this thesis was taken largely from the Mexican legal documents, the writing of Calles, other sources contemporary with the events described and some secondary sources. This thesis stresses the religious reasons for the La Cristiada and discusses the war itself not at all.

The purpose of this project is to gain an understanding of the daily lives of nuns in an English nunnery by examining a particular prominent abbey. This study also attempts to update the history of the abbey by incorporating methods and theories used by recent historians of women's monasticism, as well as recent archaeological evidence found at the abbey site. By including specific examinations of Barking Abbey's last nuns, as well as the nuns' artistic and cultural pursuits, this thesis expands the scholarship of the abbey's history into areas previously unexplored. This thesis begins with a look at the nuns of Barking Abbey. the social status of their secular families, and how that status may have defined life in the abbey. It also looks at how Barking fit into the larger context of English women's monasticism based on the social provenance of its nuns. The analysis then turns to the nuns' daily temporal and spiritual responsibilities, focusing on the nuns' liturgical lives as well as the work required for the efficient maintenance of the house. Also covered is the relationship the abbey and its nuns had with their local lay community. This is followed by an examination of cultural activity at the abbey with discussion of books and manuscripts, music, singing, procession, and various other art forms. The final chapter examines the abbey's dissolution in 1539 under Henry VIII's religious reforms, including the dissolution's effect on some of the abbey's last nuns.

This thesis analyzes medical manuals published in England between 1500 and 1770 to trace developing medical understandings and prescriptive approaches to conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. While there have been plenty of books written regarding social and religious changes in the reproductive process during the early modern era, there is a dearth of scholarly work focusing on the medical changes which took place in obstetrics over this period. Early modern England was a time of great change in the field of obstetrics as physicians incorporated newly-discovered knowledge about the male and female body, new fields and tools, and new or revived methods into published obstetrical manuals. As men became more prominent in the birthing chamber, instructions in the manuals began to address these men as well. Overall these changes were brought about by changes in the medical field along with changes in culture and religion and the emergence of print culture and rising literacy rates.