Subject Area: Religion-Chrisitianity-Missions
Kuchinsky, Michael2015 1-4955-0323-2 224 pages
This unique multidisciplinary case study targets the importance of higher education in facilitating and helping to produce social capital that empowered the people of Namibia to expand the necessary set of civic and political responsibilities to individuals chosen by church leaders to promote a new and transformed society in a once apartheid-like developing country.
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Bartelt, Guillermo
2026 1-4955-1355-6 168 pages
One of the first clerics to sound the alarm of a looming demographic cataclysm was the fifth mission president, Fray Mariano Payeras. In his reports to the head of the Apostolic College of San Fernando in Mexico City, he advocated for increased evangelization in the San Joaquin Valley. Fray Mariano Payeras’s letters in this biographical study of the native California resistance leader Pacomio Poqui, who had been a tutee of the friar (Bartelt 2026). Not as well-known as the friars Junípero Serra or Fermín de Lasuén, Mariano Payeras nonetheless as a protagonist who might shed further light on the mission period.
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