LIMITES NA PRÁTICA DA MISSÃO RELIGIOSA: CHARLES VINCART, UM CASO EMBLEMÁTICO

This paper addresses the Canon Charles Vincart’s missionary performance in the first years of Montes Claros’ diocese. It intends to analyze his actions in Montes Claros city, his relationship with the other members of the Premonstratensian Order that also lived in Northern Minas Gerais and, especially, with the bishop D. João Antônio Pimenta, as well. Besides, we’ll introduce the obstacles suffered by the Norbertine Canon, Charles Vincart, in his missionary performance in the countryside of the Northern Minas Gerais (1903 1917). As a parish priest, he was accused by disarranging the Norbertine’s mission in the Minas Gerais’ countryside due to his “hard and annoying profile”. Franscino Oliveira Silva Professor do Seminário Maior Imaculado Coração de Maria – Montes Claros-MG Membro do Núcleo de História Regional da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros-MG 1 0 .1 7 7 7 1 /P U C R io .A T eo .1 7 6 7 2

Missions on the move: university systems in England, New York State and California

Universities’ fundamental missions generally differ. For example, institutions can either focus on research or on teaching. Over time, these missions tend to change, and in some cases this is referred to as “mission creep”. This negative epithet is reserved for universities with l imited research capacities that try to emulate research-intensive universities. In most cases, it appears to be driven by the desire to improve their position in league tables. This paper studies mission development within three different university systems (in England, New York State and California) from a resource-dependency perspective. It focuses in particular on the mission development of comprehensive four-year universities within those systems. The analysis shows that although some emulation of research-intensive universities can be observed, there is a dominant drive to build a unique brand that cannot be equated with the profile of a research-intensive institution. The paper concludes with some general observations on mission development and the need for further research.

Redefinición de lo sagrado en el ámbito urbano

The effects of globalization and secularization in the cityscape today call the Church to an architecture which responds to its new role as «one more» immigrant within the secular urban context and finds meaning by representing otherness and providing sacramental havens to an over secularized society. This reflects a peripheral and not centrist role within the greater urban context and subsequently may be revealed through architectural materializations that aspire not to the iconography of form but to an iconography of relevance. Meaningful sacred architecture follows theological and liturgical vigor. The manifestation of sacramental purposes, the reinvigoration of the ways the Body of Christ is manifested, both ritually and charismatically, all lend to a need for the architecture of sacra mentality to be interpreted within the profanity it must inhabit, and subsequent catalytic expressions. The Western City traditionally has been defined by the image of the Church physically and culturally at the center. What would a sacred architecture of periphery be like? In light of a sacramental paradigms? Architectural history has witnessed secular architecture becoming wrapped in church aesthetics. The ascent of modern institutions to perceived higher echelons of cultural importance have subsequently created the conundrum of the Church’s sacred spaces becoming less iconographic, and in urban contexts, backdrops to the life of the city, no longer central or relevant in meaning. At worse, it is the absorption of the sacred aesthetic by the profane. Sacramental architecture, which in its essence does not seek to define the secular city through engagement but through contrast, can reflect the realities of globalization today, with honest relevance. The Church may move from center to «embassy», realizing its foreignness in societies that move toward secularity, thus reinforcing it mission and meaning through dissonance of form and function. Architectural manifestations would engage the urban fabric through dichotomies.

The Siberia Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Korea (1920-1931)

The Medical Works of Korea Mission of the Presbyterian Church(U.S.) in Jeonbuk Province(1896-1940)

Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens

Schools of social work have put considerable energy into civic engagement and community partnership. Despite the attention paid to the civic mission of the university and/or of the profession, however, very little attention has been paid to the civic education of social work students. It will be argued here that social work education must include discussions about citizenship and democracy, about participating in our communities apart from our work. Service learning, with its emphasis on civic learning and a complementary focus on social justice, provides both a lens and a pedagogy for accomplishing this.

A Study on Development and Application Effect of Junior Engineering Team Mission Project Education Program and Workbook

The purpose of this study is to develop the ‘Engineering Team Mission Project Education Program and Textbook’, which is improved creativity and creative problem for Juniors(middle school students) that is in the growth stage to become the leading role in future society. This can be applied the creative experience activities time of revised curriculum in 2009 being implemented to secondary education by 2011. The results of this study are as follows. The formation of Team Mission Project Education Program is the big field 2 project, lower field 8 module and 38 total lessons. This education program has secured the validity of the SME(Subject Matter Expert) expert conference. Actually, by putting the education program and textbook to the invention talent class formed by middle school students and by normally analyzing, it has been analyzed as very satisfying result. Therefore, the Engineering Team Mission Project Education Program and Textbook can be provided as a practical education course of new talent training and engineering talent model of the nation's knowledge property education. And it can perform as an education program using usefully in the creative experience activity education course in middle class education stage. Also, it is concluded to become the basis of engineering design education's high grade education and department of engineering's creative engineering.

Gods, Goods and Big Game: The Archaeology of Labrador Inuit Choices in an Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mission Context

Cultural Planning and Community Sustainability: The Case of the Cultural Facilities Plan of Catalonia (PECCAT 2010-20)

The government of Catalonia has developed a planning framework that seeks to establish the provision of cultural facilities throughout the country. The Cultural Facilities Plan of Catalonia (PECCAT) is based on an analysis of historical gaps and establishes a minimum spatial scheme. The plan responds to problems associated with the absence of a former similar instrument, which has led to an inconsistent and inappropriate cultural infrastructure that fails to fulfill its fundamental mission of securing the cultural rights of the population. The paper sets forth the aims of this policy and describes the objectives and basic characteristics of the plan and the expected outcomes. With the plan, the government of Catalonia seeks to rebalance the infrastructure within the territory and to ensure universal access to basic cultural services, while avoiding a logic of standardization and taking local communities into account. With the development of local plans in the municipalities, local governments encourage community participation processes to adapt and decide on priorities for action based on needs assessments and cultural opportunities for local sustainable development. The local plans focus on local cultural strengths, take advantage of opportunities, and aim to realize the cultural dynamics of a place through establishing an infrastructure that can best respond to the needs and cultural demands of the local communities, taking into account economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Damper and fish, tea and sugar: post-contact changes in resource use and residence on Groote Eylandt

A number of the archaeological sites located and studied on Groote Eylandt were occupied during the very recent past covering the time of contact with Macassans and missionaries. Historical sources relating to the early period of the Church Missionary Society Mission from the 1920s to the 1950s are used in this paper to examine the material record and processes of cross-cultural interaction and change, rather than to recreate a generalised ethnographic past located at some unspecifi ed point in the late Holocene.