Thesis (PhD--History)--University of Auckland, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92).

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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.

This thesis examines travel to continental Europe as undertaken by several generations of Irish Protestants between 1660 and 1727. Historians draw parallels between the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland and other polities in ancien régime Europe, but these demand an exploration of contemporary encounters. Research on the Irish in Europe concentrates on Catholics without much regard to Protestant experiences, while work on English or British travel overlooks ways in which Irish Protestant voyages differed. This thesis analyses the experiences of Church-of-Ireland families from the gentry, nobility and aristocracy, especially the Southwells, Percevals, Molesworths, Molyneuxs, Boyles and Butlers. Correspondence, notebooks and financial accounts reconstruct their voyages, mainly to France, Italy, the Low Countries and Germany, and their attitudes towards the practice of travel. Journeys to other destinations are incorporated, as are the voyages of neighbours, acquaintances and employees. Purposes varied, but travel was consistently considered an opportunity for 'improvement'. The thesis follows the successive preoccupations of travellers, beginning with demonstrations of 'fitness to travel'. Wealthy young men were judged according to criteria that privileged anglicisation and Protestantism, though linguistic skill was a more socially-comprehensive standard. Advisors emphasised civil conversation and written observation, but warnings to avoid 'countrymen' were ignored. The company of English-speaking travellers and Irish Catholic expatriates created distinctive European experiences. Foreign hosts often saw uncomplicated Englishmen, though some recognised Irish difference. Anglican travellers held qualified membership of a 'Protestant international', drawing on a cross-confessional 'stock of friends'. Travellers received tuition that complicates perceptions of travel as 'informal' education and they memorialised experiences through souvenirs and gifts. Voyages encouraged some into English residence and identifications, though others brought improvements home to Ireland. 'Improvement', as it related to wealthy Church-of-Ireland families, functioned not as a binary between approved England and disdained Ireland but a triangular exchange in which continental Europe featured prominently.

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En tant que population majoritairement immigrante, les protestants inhumés au cimetière Saint-Matthew, ville de Québec (1771-1860) ont dû s'adapter à un nouvel environnement à leur arrivée au Québec, et donc à de nouvelles ressources. Parallèlement, les 18e et 19e siècles sont marqués par un contexte socio-économique en pleine mutation avec l'arrivée graduelle de la période industrielle, et la ville de Québec, avec son contexte portuaire, a ainsi été au coeur de ces changements. L'objectif de ce mémoire est d'évaluer si la géochimie des isotopes stables appliquée à plusieurs matériaux du squelette humain (collagène et apatite de l'os, collagène de la dentine, et carbonate de l'émail) permet de mieux comprendre comment les comportements alimentaires des individus analysés provenant de ce cimetière cosmopolite (n=40) ont évolué en cours de vie. L'alimentation étant influencée par des conditions socio-économiques, culturelles et environnementales, cela peut nous informer indirectement sur les processus d'adaptation et l'identité d'un individu. C'est dans cette perspective d'écologie culturelle que nous avons interprété les données recueillies lors de ce projet, en complément aux analyses effectuées précédemment par Morland (2009) et Caron (2013). Nos résultats corroborent les tendances déjà observées, soit des pratiques alimentaires semblables à celles que l'on retrouve en Europe, et des immigrants provenant majoritairement des Îles Britanniques. Ils démontrent également une légère augmentation de la consommation de ressources C4, comme le maïs et la canne à sucre, à l'âge adulte pour 90% des individus analysés, de même qu'une baisse du niveau de protéines. Par ailleurs, les individus étudiés ont généralement eu tendance à conserver le même niveau alimentaire les uns par rapport aux autres tout au cours de leur vie, même si les pratiques étaient moins diversifiés à l'âge adulte. Finalement, on constate des similarités de comportements avec les populations irlandaises et britanniques plus pauvres durant l'enfance, alors qu'ils ressemblent davantage à ceux visibles dans la vallée laurentienne en fin de vie, notamment en ce qui concerne l'apport en protéines. Nos résultats suggèrent donc des changements alimentaires significatifs, fort possiblement liés aux processus de migration et à une adaptation constante à un nouvel environnement de la part des individus étudiés. / As a population consisting mainly of immigrants, the Protestants buried in Saint-Matthew’s cemetery, Quebec City (1771-1860) during the 19th century had to adapt to a new environment, and therefore new resources, when they first settled in Quebec. On the other hand, the 18th and 19th centuries saw important socio-economic changes with the coming of the Industrial Revolution, and Quebec City, with its important port, was at the heart of those changes. The objective of this study is to evaluate if the stable isotope geochemistry of several materials of the human skeleton (bone collagen, bone apatite, dentinal collagen and enamel carbonate) can help us understand how dietary behaviours have evolved throughout the life of some individuals (n=40) buried in this cemetery. As diet is closely related to socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions, it can inform us about individual adaptation and identity through a person’s lifespan. It is in this cultural ecology perspective that we approached this research and the data previously obtained by Morland (2009) and Caron (2013). Our data corroborate those acquired previously on bone collagen by showing that these individuals maintained a European-style diet, and originated mainly from the British Isles. They also show a significant increase in C4 plant (maize, sugarcane, etc.) consumption through adulthood amongst 36 of the 40 individuals that we analyzed, as well as a decrease of protein intake. Our results also indicate a generalized tendency to keep the same dietary profile in the population through life, even if practices became less variable during adulthood. Finally, dietary behaviors show similarites with Irish and poor British populations of the same period for childhood, where as they look more like populations from the St. Lawrence Valley later in life, particularly for protein intake. Therefore, our results suggest important dietary shifts for the individuals we studied, possibly strongly related to their migration process and adaptative response to a new environment.

After 1781 there were established several Protestant congregations in Podkrkonoší (North-East Bohemia). Approximately one hundred years later, the whole region was greatly affected by Spiritualism, a belief in communication with spirits of the dead through mediums. My objective is to describe the attitudes of the Protestant congregations in Podkrkonoší towards Spiritualism and analyse their causes and effects. Understanding these attitudes will yield an insight into the character of the present congregations. For this purpose, I studied the congregations in Libštát, Křížlice, and Jičín. In particular I focused on their parish priests because they had the control over their flock in these questions. I went through the archival materials of the respective congregations as well as personal diaries, and I analysed the memories of several interviewed people. These findings were then compared with the attitudes of some congregations in Great Britain. The results revealed three different approaches of the priests. Some were very radical, which led to excommunication of Spiritualists. Others were rather tolerant, which resulted in integration of Spiritualists. Finally, some priests were quite secretive, so their parishioners may not have seen a clear line between Spiritualism and Christianity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PSO - Fernando C Paulino Pereira.pdf: 476398 bytes, checksum: 374765d27422bd1e59d28ea02d60f60d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research had as its main focus the religious experience of activists who define themselves as Methodist protestants and that became involved in social movements oriented by Liberation Theology, with the objective of understanding the formation and transformation process of human identity as a metamorphosis that searches for emancipation. In the analysis of these formative processes there was also the concern to understand the integration processes of these activists in society, being identified as incarnated personages as possible idiosyncratic forms of assumed roles in social groups, movements and/or organizations. In the measure that such roles are affected by identity policies that define role expectations, the struggle for emancipation was not done without the necessity of articulating overcoming possibilities with mechanisms of the change of presuppositions that search to establish the reproduction of conventional collective identities. With this, the pretension was to contribute with subsidies that permit the elaboration of a scientific-psychological basis for the práxis of the social psychologist, aiming at overcoming preconceptions and reductionist approaches of the religious experience, and verify if and how it can have an emancipation sense in the story of the activists. In a qualitative approach we study the narratives of the life stories of four activists, as potential expressions of the construction of new sense of life that transforms their identities in a movement that involves the overcoming of contradictions by the replacement of conventional presuppositions, in the quest of emancipation - according to understanding of identity as the metamorphosis of Ciampa (1987/2005) and the post-Metaphysical thought of Habermas (1988/2002). We conclude that in the process of militancy and in the change of identity, as metamorphosis in search of emancipation, the activists individualize in their attempt to establish their political identities with autonomy as they confront the bureaucratic power of the religious organization. In the effort to appropriate and, at the same time, to surpass the identity policy, to which they had been exposed the socialization process, we saw that in the process of individualization that the activists had developed their political identities and had become more fully political activists / Esta pesquisa teve como foco principal a experiência religiosa de sujeitos que se autodefinem como protestantes metodistas e que se envolveram em movimentos sociais orientados pela Teologia da Libertação, com o objetivo de compreender o processo de formação e transformação da identidade humana como metamorfose que busca a emancipação. Na análise desses processos formativos também houve a preocupação de compreender os processos de integração desses sujeitos na sociedade, verificando as personagens encarnadas por eles como possíveis formas idiossincráticas de assumir papéis sociais em grupos, movimentos sociais e/ou organizações. Na medida em que tais papéis são afetados por políticas de identidade que definem expectativas de papéis, a luta pela emancipação não se fez sem a necessidade de articular possibilidades de superação com mecanismos de reposição de pressupostos que buscam estabelecer a reprodução de identidades coletivas convencionais. Com isso, a pretensão foi de contribuir com subsídios que permitam elaborar fundamentação científico-psicológica para a práxis do psicólogo social, visando à superação de preconceitos e abordagens reducionistas sobre a experiência religiosa, de forma a verificar se e como a mesma pode ter sentido emancipatório na história de sujeitos. Numa abordagem qualitativa estudamos as narrativas de histórias de vida de quatro sujeitos, como expressões potenciais da construção de novos sentidos de vida que metamorfoseiam suas identidades num movimento que envolve tanto a superação de contradições como a reposição de pressupostos convencionais, na busca da emancipação - segundo a compreensão da identidade enquanto metamorfose de Ciampa (1987/2005) e do pensamento pós-metafísico de Habermas (1988/2002). Concluímos que no processo de militância e no movimento da identidade, como metamorfose em busca de emancipação, os sujeitos vão se individualizando na tentativa de concretizar suas identidades políticas com alguma autonomia frente ao poder da burocracia da organização religiosa. No esforço de se apropriarem e, ao mesmo tempo, superarem políticas de identidade, a que foram expostos no processo socialização, vimos que é no processo de individualização que os sujeitos desenvolveram suas identidades políticas e se tornaram mais plenamente sujeitos políticos