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Missionary Education
Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives
2021 || Hardcover || Kim Christiaens e.a. || Leuven University Press
Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors – from both Europe and the Global South – address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They ela...
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Kerken bouwen langs Maas en Rijn na 1945
Kirchenbau an Maas und Rhein nach 1945
Hardcover || Antoine Jacobs || Leuven University Press
De laatste bloeiperiode van de kerkbouw in Noordwest-Europa voltrok zich in de eerste decennia na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Enerzijds moest de oorlogsschade worden gerepareerd, anderzijds zette de bevolkingsgroei aan tot de uitbreiding van dorpen en steden. Afhankelijk van de aanwezige religieuze denominatie(s) werden nieuwbouwwijken voorzien van één of meerdere kerkgebouwen. De spectaculaire opleving in de kerkbouw hield aan tot het midden van de jaren zestig toen toenemende ontkerkelijking ...
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Material Change
The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-1920
2022 || Hardcover || Jan De Maeyer e.a. || Leuven University Press
The long nineteenth century (c.1780–c.1920) in Western Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the production and possession of material goods. The material culture diversified and led to a rich variety of expressions. Dovetailing with a process of confessionalisation that manifested itself quite simultaneously, material religion witnessed its heyday in this period; from church buildings to small devotional objects.
The present volume analyses how various types of reform (state, societal, and e...
Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala
The Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary during 'La Violencia'
2024 || Hardcover || Mario Trinidad || Leuven University Press
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Dynamics of Religious Reform Charity and social welfare
Hardcover || Leen van Molle || Leuven University Press
How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief.
Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce critici...
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Landscapes of Liberation
Mission and Development in Peru’s Southern Highlands, 1958 – 1988
2023 || Hardcover || Noah Oehri || Leuven University Press
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.
Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with...