The Catholic Question in Contemporary Portuguese Civil Society: A Case of Muted Vibrancy? CES Papers - Open Forum #14, 2012

The ‘Catholic question’ in contemporary Portugal obliges us to consider whether Catholicism will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the next century, or whether it faces a future of slow and steady decline. On the one hand, an overall statistical drop of church membership, and the lack of religious practice by almost half of self-identified Roman Catholics, suggests that the future of the Catholic Church in Portugal will probably be very different than the past. On the other hand, the church’s support for democratic processes, the important social services it provides, and its educational establishment, have certainly been a positive factor in Portuguese associational life, and helped the larger process of democratic-regime consolidation since the Carnation Revolution of 1974. This paper suggests that social scientists need to move beyond the lens normally applied to the question of Catholicism in contemporary Europe (i.e. it is a dying, anti-modern, anti-rational, conservative institution), and instead consider the complex interplay of its demographic challenges combined with the popular sources of its theological and spiritual strength, as well as its vital societal contributions, to assess whether or not it will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the future.

Glimpses of Methodism in York : and the surrounding district /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lutherförbundets Sångbook /

Includes indexes.

Iac. Gvilielmi Feverlini ... Bibliotheca symbolica evangelica Lvtherana qvam magno stvdio mvltisqve impensis ipse dvm vivebat collegit disposvit et adiectis annotationibvs descripst ...

First published 1751 or 1752. (See Praefatio priori editioni praefixa; also Michaud's Biog. universelle)

Plain catechetical instruction for young communicants, designed to assist them in forming Scriptural views of the Lord's Supper. With an address to young persons not yet communicants, and a few meditations and helps for self-examination.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hints to emigrants : in a series of letters from Upper Canada /

Map: Perth, Lanark & Richmond Settlements, district of Bathurst, Upper Canada with part of the adjacent county; Plans: [1]. Township of Drummond, ten miles square. This sketch shows how a township is divided into concessions & lots; [2]. Perth.

D. Martin Luthers Werke.

This book is a pre-publication prospectus of the Weimar Edition of Luther's Works. It contains a table of contents as well as the anticipated publication date for each forthcoming volume. As they are printed, each volume of Luther's works will be divided into four "series": I: Werke; II: Tischreden; III: Deutsche Bibel; IV: Briefe.

Life in Alaska : letters of Mrs. Eugene S. Willard /

Includes index.

Old-time primitive Methodism in Canada, 1829-1884

Mode of access: Internet.

Lutherische dogmatik /

I. Principieniehre -- II. System der Christlichen Heilswahrheit : 1. th. Die Heilsbedingungen. 2. th. Die Heilsverwirklichung.

Modern missions on the Spanish main; impressions of Protestant work in Colombia and Venezuela,

"A brief reading list on Colombia and Venezuela": p. 331-334.

Missions in South America.

"Printed for the use of the Board and missions."

Effectiveness of Presbyterian college programs in developing leadership for religious education,

Based on thesis (PH.D.)--Yale university.

A memorial of the Futtehgurh mission and her martyred missionaries : with some remarks on the mutiny in India.

Cover title: The martyred missionaries.

In search of God's gold; a story of continued Christian pioneering in California.

Mode of access: Internet.