Hans Kelsen was one of the most important legal thinkers 20th century, and he is known for mounting an elaborate defense liberal party democracy at a time when latter hardly popular form regime. This article examines how responded to two major political movements experienced in his intellectual prime: Catholicism, which confronted with interwar Austria, Christian Democracy, became hegemonic for...

A critical problem to study Catholicism in the context of Latin American modernity, is that conceptual tools we use religion were designed understand transformations modernity provoked European religiosity. Studies on Americans have largely explored religiosity population through surveys measure attendance, adherence and affiliation. While some anthropologists religious practices among particul...

The Trinity both as a Christian concept and doctrine is complex whole or better still “mystery.” Even the great bishop of Hippo, St Augustine at end his monumental opus, De Trinitate, prayed God to pardon him if he had written anything that was untrue about Trinity. Catholic Church, say least, trinitarian church in sense belief one cornerstones its constitution system. baptises receives people ...

The almost global erosion of Catholicism is a research hypothesis based on the analysis decades data collected by social science initiative World Values Survey. It provided hard condition Catholicism. Analyzing such at-titudes as anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and homophobia, it can be concluded that they are not only prtesent in mentality attitudes many Catholics, but we observe also intensificati...

Garcia de Orta was one of the pioneers (according to western view) of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy and ethnobotany. de Orta’s parents who migrated from Spain as Jewish refugees were forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 though there was a doubt that they practiced Judaism secretely.de Orta studied medicine in Portugal and fearing the infamous Portuguese inquisition where neochristians ...

The crisis of the Spanish Catholic monarchy paved the way for the creation of more than twenty republics in Latin America between 1810 and 1825. This paper analyzes early nineteenth-century Spanish American republican experiences, which have been generally neglected in the historiography, as constitutive parts of Atlantic republicanism. It focuses on the theologico-political considerations of t...

The article analyzes the dialogue between eugenicist Renato Kehl and a group of Brazilian psychiatrists who turned their interest to so-called negative eugenics in the early 1930s. Enthused about research into eugenics and the application of eugenic methods in countries such as the United States and Germany, authors like Ernani Lopes, Ignácio da Cunha Lopes, Alberto Farani, and Antonio Carlos P...

The meaning of work for Poles is analyzed here from 2 perspectives: macrosocial and individual. From the macrosocial perspective work attitudes are explained by 3 factors: traditional Polish Catholicism, cultural patterns (influence of noble class tradition), and experience of "real socialism." From an individual perspective some psychological and demographic predictors of an autonomous (intrin...