This article is based on interviews carried out with sixteen members of the Zusters van de Jacht, a congregation founded in Belgium, and whose Belgian Sisters are today mainly retired community. The served abroad as missionaries throughout world, during aftermath colonial rule, this investigates issues power using three-fold lens religion, post/colonialism, gender. As nationals colonising count...

Reviewed by: Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920–1968 by Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval Jakob Egeris Thorsen 1920–1968. By Sandoval. (Notre Dame, IN: University Notre Dame Press. 2018. Pp. 254. $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-268-10441-2.) In this compelling book, explores the history Church in Guatemala period between 1920 1960s, i.e., from early liberal dictatorsh...

In a literal sense the term Pre-Columbian refers to the period of the history of the Western Hemisphere from the earliest times to 1492, when Christopher Columbus set foot on the New World. In a wider sense, however, pre-Columbian commonly applies to the pre-acculturation period, before the native populations bore the full brunt of European colonization. Due to the staggered waves of exploratio...

This paper comments on the new Media Lab global initiatives such as the 2B1 Foundation, Center for Future Children, and Junior Summit. Ideas are presented for how existing Media Lab technologies can be integrated within the goals of these enterprises. These ideas are not necessarily limited to children and are mostly in the areas of health and education.

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

Humans’ willingness to bear costs benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer this puzzle—cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due group-level benefits. For instance, belief in knowledgeable, moralizing deities theorized decrease selfishness favoritism through threat of supernatural punishment. Similarly, fairness cooperation are have ...

it talks about the nature of relationship between British ruling in India and Christian missionaries who came to for propagation Christianity

Abstract This article explores the promotion of “Jesuit sanctity,” in delicate passage between suppression and restoration Society Jesus, as a reflection process revival order. The strategies sainthood that were fostered by ex-Jesuits during restored reveal fundamental information about self-image order wanted to show world. These emerge clearly from activity General Postulation for Causes Sain...

Herman Melville’s final novel The Confidence-Man destabilizes conventional Western models of ethical behavior, particularly Kantian notions of moral agency, by exposing and challenging their basis in rationality and a progressivist model of history. The Confidence-Man shows rationality to be nothing more than one way, among many other possible ways, that human beings attempt to fix the world in...