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In the poetry of Eavan Boland and second-generation Irish poet Rhian Gallagher, bodies of water are summoned to enact the ritual or vocation towards embodiment in the lyric. In this article, I argue that a Catholic upbringing influences how a poet treats the subject in lyric poetry, particularly bodies of women. Boland travels towards the body of her dying mother in “And Soul”, permeating every drop of water she encounters with the possibility of enlivening her mother. In “Gaze”, Gallagher searches for “something” missing in the view outside her window, something she finds in the gaze and body of her lesbian lover. Both poems are set in liminal spaces, allowing for the ritual of lyric embodiment with subjects seeking immortality through bodies of water.

This article deals with the relationship between Catholic missionaries and Protestants in the border area of the Brazilian-Colombian Vaupés. Although the presence of Catholics began in the area in 1914, it is not negligible since about 450 religious, including priests and nuns, arrived in the region. The Protestants belonging to two organizations of American origin (New Tribes Mission and Summer Institute of Linguistics) arrived thirty years later and reached a figure of 115 members. Their relationships as well as their differential impact on the populations they missioned are a topic little developed in the mission stories, which in this text is illustrated through consultation of primary sources that detail the links or views of members of different faiths about their counter-parts. The study shows how these views changed over time.

Mexico entered World War II in 1942, and the government quickly instituted a draft of young men. Catholic women’s lay organizations immediately organized to support the troops, claiming patriotism as their religious calling. This article examines Catholic women, ideas of patriotism and support for the national war effort. Despite the previous antagonism between Catholics and the post-revolutionary government, the rapprochement between the Catholic Church and the government of the 1940s allowed Catholic women participating to finally embrace a national project through dedicating their charity and service to the war effort, they defined their citizenship as a religious calling.

This article brings a reading of the short-story collection Monção [Monsoon] ( 2003) by the Goan writer Vimala Devi (1932-). The collection can be read as a short-story cycle, a group of stories related by locality, Goa, character, Goans, from all walks of life, and theme, in particular women´s milieu, among other literary categories. In her book, written from her self-imposed exile in Portugal, Devi recreates Goa, former Portuguese colony, in the 1950s, before its annexation to India. A member of the Catholic gentry, Devi portrays the four hundred years of conflictive intimacy between Catholics and Hindus. Our main argument is that Devi´s empathy for her culture becomes even more explicit in Monção when her voice becomes one with that of all her women characters. Though they might be at odds, due to differences of caste, class and religion, Devi makes a point of showing that they are all part of the same cultural identity constantly remade through their own acts of refusal and recognition. This discussion will be framed in terms of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson’s theory of autobiography (2001) as well as the studies on Goan women by the Goan critics Propércia Correia Afonso (1928-1931), Maria Aurora Couto (2005) and Fátima da Silva Gracias (2007).

As abordagens dos Professores Akhil Amar e Philip Bobbitt quanto à interpretação constitucional oferecem uma janela para o campo do debate jurídico americano. Esse artigo apresenta uma análise da doutrina de dois dos maiores juristas do direito constitucional de seu tempo, confrontando-se em dois eixos de valor significativo para estudiosos: quem deve interpretar e o que deve ser interpretado. Ao determinar o alcance da interpretação válida no judiciário e além, e limitar o conjunto de materiais disponíveis para os intérpretes de formas notadamente distintas, esses juristas oferecem uma visão ampla e precisa do cenário constitucional, ao mesmo tempo em que demonstram como abordagens radicalmente distintas quanto à interpretação podem aspirar principiológicamente aos mesmos fins.

Nossa intenção, neste artigo, é oferecer um estudo acerca deste conjunto das cartas do Novo Testamento intituladas Cartas Católicas, que desde a antiguidade têm enfrentado não poucos ou indiferentes problemas, seja na aceitação seja no estudo de seu corpus, como o grupo de cartas do Novo Testamento menos estudado ou explorado, mesmo em nossos seminários, faculdades e universidades religiosas em geral, sejam eles católicos ou protestantes; também cremos não ser exagero afirmar que os trabalhos neste campo são mais comuns em meios católicos que em meios protestantes, visto as dificuldades que alguns Pais da Reforma levantaram no que tange à canonicidade de algumas destas cartas e ao fato de que no meio protestante o domínio maior realmente é dos textos paulinos e não dos textos não paulinos do Novo Testamento, como Evangelhos, Cartas Católicas, Hebreus e Apocalipse. Visto a escassez de material nesta área, cremos que um artigo ilustrativo venha nos ajudar a avançar um pouco mais neste campo e produção de material na área, a fim de ajudar a avançar em nossos estudos acadêmicos bíblico-teológicos. Our intention in this article is to provide a study into this set of letters of the New Testament titled Catholic Letters, which, since the ancient times, has faced considerable issues in the acceptance and in the study of its corpus, and which constitute the group of letters of the New Testament that are the least studied or explored, even in our seminaries, colleges and religious universities in general, either Catholic or Protestant; we also believe that it would not be an exaggeration to say that the researches in this field are more common in the Catholic circles than in the Protestant ones, given the difficulties that the Fathers of the Reformation raised regarding the canonicity of some of these letters and the fact that, in the Protestant circles, the domain really belongs to the Pauline texts and not to the non-Pauline texts of the New Testament, such as Gospels, Catholic Letters, Hebrews and Revelation. Given the scarcity of documentation in this area, we believe that an illustrative article will help us go further in this field and extend the production of material in this area, in order to help advance our biblical and theological studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article has the purpose to approach the construction of the figure of Isabel, The Catholic (1474-1504), approximating two different historiographical perspectives, the Political History and the History of the Emotions. This last one limits itself to the observation of the emotions and the emotional gestures revealed in the articulation of Isabel's feminine condition to the masculine model of a king, highlighting topics like love and authority. Focusing on these two topics, it emphasizes the emotions revealed in the chronicles of the period and in the Queen's Testament and the adjustments of the emotional manifestations of Isabel at different social spaces. It points out that the emotions and modes of emotional expression were utilized not only as ways to express feelings, but, above it all, as resources used to radicalize one ideal image of the Queen inside specific emotional communities, composed of kings, the nobility and the public to which the writings were intended to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Epistemic modality indicates the degree of certainty or doubt speakers have for the proposition expressed by their utterance. Evidentiality, on the other hand, is the indication of evidence for a statement in question. Given the eminently persuasive character of homiletic discourse, it features a high degree of epistemicity and frequently makes use of evidential markers. The preacher emphasizes his high degree of certainty about the content of what he says and, in order to gain credibility, he supports his reasons citing the Bible or other sources deemed reliable. This paper aims to analyze the markers of epistemic modality and evidentiality in Catholic sermons in Portuguese. Moreover, it intends to define the limit between different kinds of evidence. In order to carry out this analysis, fifteen homilies pronounced in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima have been examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the confrontation between Catholics and anti-clericals in the state of Paraná during the 1930s. It bases itself on Intellectual History especially with the meaning that the intellectuals' actions was characterized by taking part in public life, establishing schools, cultural centers, universities, newspapers. The groups analyzed in this text exercised their intellectual functions when they founded the evening anti-clerical newspaper (Diário da Tarde) and the morning Catholic one (Cruzeiro). In light of the editorials and notes of the above mentioned newspapers it is possible to state that what the newspapers aimed at was to catholicize or secularize the public opinion in Paraná with the dispute between Catholics and anti-clericals as the background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As far as the cultural goods of the catholic and evangelical world are concerned, books represent one of the most important segments of product in this field. Based on a exploratory research focused on the circuits of production and distribution of Catholic and Evangelical producers, the article explores the material culture of the respective religious universe by analyzing Evangelical and Catholic publishing houses. The article summarizes the results both of in-depth interviews and the study of relevant documents of different institutions conducted in the context of an ongoing wider research project on religious cultural industries in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]