{"title":"Communiquer la doctrine catholique. Textes et conversations durant le concile Vatican II d’ après le journal d’Yves Congar, by David Douyère","authors":"C. Prudhomme","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"15 1","pages":"200-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81357617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ties and Identities","authors":"Doriano Saracino","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Immigration from the Global South is a recent phenomenon in Italy, which is turning from a prevalently homogenous Catholic country into a multi-faith one. This transformation is evident too in prisons, where people from different religious traditions share space. The long road from religious diversity to social acceptance of differences is difficult. The public debate concerns essentially Muslim inmates, and the arguments swing from ‘securitarian’ views to an inclusive approach as an alternative way to prevent radicalisation. The lack of meaningful relationships between inmates of different faiths and their religious communities can be a serious obstacle to social reinsertion. An analysis of the Italian prison system with statistical data and qualitative research enables us to outline a model of the evolution of the penitentiary systems.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"29 1","pages":"69-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74036158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Memories","authors":"W. Wong","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Five years after the establishment of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1894 under the influence of the Protestant evangelical movement the Chinese YWCA national committee was founded in 1899. Shortly after the overthrow of the Manchu Empire, the Canton YWCA was founded in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China. In this study I examine three oral history interviews with former YWCA staff, supplemented by the written recollections of a former general secretary and other scarce materials to reconstruct the fragmented work of the Canton YWCA in the 1940s. In the conclusion, I discuss how their memories have shifted according to their contingent “present” identities in different periods of time, and how they are dependent on individual concerns, institutional affiliations and socio-political contexts.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79586194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pentecostals, Proselytization and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India, by Chad Bauman","authors":"Xavier Gravend-Tirole","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"42 5 1","pages":"195-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83649336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entering A Place of Fire","authors":"Timothy J. Revett","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Terms like “frightening” and “spiritually dark” fall short in describing many visitors’ impressions of Paraguay’s Tacumbú Penitentiary. Inmates simply refer to it as “hell.” The human rights abuses there are not merely statistics on a United Nations report – they are daily life for thousands of men: overcrowding, malnourishment, unsanitary conditions, over-extended sentences, and the constant threat of assault. According to a former warden, the main efforts in preventing a violent reaction to such circumstances as well as thwarting the consequences of the façade of correction occur inside the penitentiary’s Christian rehabilitation cell blocks, which are managed by chaplains and volunteers. This paper proposes that the primary motivations driving these ministry workers to endure the inhospitable prison environment fall under three categories used by Tewksbury and Dabney: helping inmates, visiting known inmates, and sharing religious beliefs. The paper also evaluates the effectiveness of these motivations for ministry in one of South America’s most dangerous prisons.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"77 1","pages":"29-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81657063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940–1986, by Eric Morier-Genoud","authors":"Bjørn Enge Bertelsen","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"66 1","pages":"212-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72863331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Welfare Church in Nigerian Prisons","authors":"L. Njeukam","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In Nigeria, religious groups have played an important role to help prisoners. Although it is not unusual for religious organizations to operate within penitentiaries, this article gives attention to the scope and importance of the involvement of such organizations in the lives of inmates in Nigeria. In fact, faith-based organizations have been providing so much assistance in the form of clothing, food, medicine, and counselling that they have become an unofficial “welfare church” within the state. Indeed, churches have also considerably assisted in the rehabilitation of prisoners. In effect, religious organizations can be seen as a substitute to the quasi-absent welfare state in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"98 6 1","pages":"51-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87711815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change, by Janelle S. Wong","authors":"A. Barb","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03301012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"6 1","pages":"229-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82926499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Praying and Preying. Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia, by Vilaça Aparecida","authors":"Elise Capredon","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"34 1","pages":"191-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80379525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}