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Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa
This chapter analyzes the factors that shaped the remarkable quantitative and qualitative growth of the Roman Catholic church in postcolonial Africa....
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CHINA and the Catholic Church Through Mutual Eyes
The volume approaches the relations between China and the Catholic Church in a quite comprehensive and unprejudiced way. Its approach is new since it...
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China Catholic Church and the Liberalization Policy (1979–2013)
The liberation policy, launched by Deng **, saw, from the perspective of Religions and of the Catholic Church, just the restoration of the...
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An Independent Catholic, Nationalist People’s Movement: The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church)
This chapter focuses on the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church; abbrev.: IFI) as a particularly significant, yet...
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The Catholic Church and the Communist Government: First Period, 1949–1978
In the first period, the Communist Government, facing the refusal by the Catholic Church of the atheist ideology, dealt with Catholics with different...
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The Catholic Church and the National Republic of China (1912–1949)
The chapter deals, first, with the poor and rather confused conditions under which the Catholic Church lived and operated during the National...
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Catholic Church Architecture in Japan, 1923–2020
The history of Catholic church architecture in Japan is a heterogeneous phenomenon of use and reuse, construction, and loss that spans over...
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The Catholic Church Under ** (2013–2022)
The Chinese Government kept the traditional religious policy of full control of Religion. ** added the new orientation, the “Sinicization of...
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Dealing with Conflict and Dissent in the Roman Catholic Church. An Inventory from the Perspective of Canon Law
The Roman Catholic Church is a highly organized legal community of faith. It has differentiated legal rules and procedures on how to deal with...
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Dissenting Church Exploring the Theological Power of Conflict and Disagreement
This book challenges the prevailing notion of stability, cohesiveness, and uniformity within Christian communities, inviting readers to view...
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Catholic Missions and Colonial States
Most of the European missionary activity that laid the basis for Catholicism in contemporary Africa took place during the height of the colonial...
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Attitude of the Chinese Empire Toward the Catholic Church: From “Welcomed Religion” to “Heterodox Sect”
The chapter points out the view and the attitude of the Chinese authorities toward the Catholic Church and its members during the Tang and Yuan...
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Church and State Relationship in China
Different models of relations between State and Church can be adopted according to the different visions and types of the society. History has...
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Religion and the State: A Catholic View
Although it recognizes and honors the truths taught by other religions, the Catholic Church understands itself to be the Church established by Christ...
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Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885
Nineteenth-century renewed Catholic mission in sub-Saharan Africa reflected innovative new missionary bodies, renewed papal support, the growth of...
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Why Study Vatican II on Church-State Relations?
This chapter introduces the argument of the monograph by using the examples of the Scillitan Martyrs from the second century and religious...
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Triumphalist Temptations and the Sinfulness of the Church
This chapter sheds light on the ambiguous paragraph 4 of Unitatis Redintegratio regarding the possible triumphalist claim that all divinely revealed...
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Vatican II on Church-State Relations What Did the Council Teach, and What's Wrong With It?
Should religion and politics be kept apart? What should be the relationship between the church and the state? M.Y. Ciftci answers these questions by...
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Roman Catholic Recognition of Ecclesiality Outside Its Boundaries: What Does It Mean?
This chapter offers a study of the reception of the notion “elements of the church” (elementa ecclesiae) within Catholic theology and the ecumenical...
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Hindu-Christian Dialogue on the Afterlife: Swami Vivekananda, Modern Advaita Vedānta, and Roman Catholic Eschatology
This article compares modern Advaita (nonduality) Vedānta and Roman Catholic afterlife beliefs, with special attention to the dialogue of Swami...
