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  • Open Access
1,889 Views
14 Pages

18 November 2024

This paper explores the phenomenon of lapsing among young Japanese Catholics, highlighting how both local and translocal experiences of Roman Catholicism shape the ebbs and flows of faith for our interlocutors. While global Catholic events such as Wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,201 Views
14 Pages

30 January 2025

As the Catholic Church declines in the west, critical questions are raised about its engagement with secular culture. Different engagement models have been experimented with since the 1960s, which I term accommodation, fortification, and conversion....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,759 Views
20 Pages

16 April 2020

This paper is the first part of a cycle comprising five texts on the marketing use of social media by nationwide opinion-forming Catholic weeklies in Poland. Considering the state of the research so far, it is not completely clear how to classify Cat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,406 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2024

The process of moving away from faith in God has taken place in Europe with varying dynamics in individual countries at least since the end of the Second World War. In Poland, secularisation slowed down significantly during the Communist period; howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,187 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising “entrepreneurship” should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,601 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2025

The rapid secularisation of society has made the work of religious education in Catholic secondary schools increasingly difficult. Contemporary RE teachers are often faced with wildly disparate knowledge and interest levels in their classrooms, to sa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,259 Views
24 Pages

Polish Nationwide Catholic Opinion-Forming Weeklies on Facebook—A Marketing Perspective

  • Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska,
  • Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała and
  • Andrzej Adamski

15 May 2020

The main focus of this paper is on the marketing approach of the use of Facebook by the Polish nationwide Catholic opinion-forming weeklies. The aim of the research is to analyse how the selected media use Facebook (FB) to create a media product, dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,670 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2023

The Catholic Church arrogates a long tradition of protecting and using heritage to complement its evangelisation ministry from the medieval ecclesiastical treasures included in museology proto-history. While these treasures have adopted museographic...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,974 Views
17 Pages

1 July 2022

The article provides a sociological and pastoral analysis of a representative empirical study conducted by means of an interview questionnaire among 1003 secondary school students in 2020 and 2021. The analysis was expanded to include data from paral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,636 Views
26 Pages

13 June 2025

From an outside perspective, it is not clear whether the Catholic Church is an active digital entity, or at least, it is not perceived as such. This paper analyses this issue. The methodology involved the monitoring of ecclesiastical Internet activit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,278 Views
14 Pages

27 February 2023

This paper describes a set of educational initiatives in Religious Education (RE). The paper addresses RE as an academic learning area and reserved for Kindergarten to Year 10 classrooms in Catholic schools. The initiatives described in the paper are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,800 Views
12 Pages

30 August 2021

In the colonial era, many Spanish missionaries in the Andes sought a total temporal and cultural break between the pagan past and desired a Christian future of indigenous Andeans. Discussions of Christian conversion in the modern-day Andes have often...

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  • Open Access
3,192 Views
19 Pages

26 December 2022

In 1935 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) accepted its federal mission policy which had racial segregation enshrined in it as a core and divinely sanctioned principle. As the foremost missiologist within South African church circles during the middle h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,590 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2024

The purpose of this paper is to provide curriculum support to religious educators working in Catholic schools. The paper provides a practical response to research advocating serious attention be given to religious educators because they are at the &l...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,393 Views
14 Pages

24 January 2024

While there is a significant body of research concerning Catholic faith formation in a variety of educational contexts around the world, relatively little attention has been devoted to the notion of missionary discipleship as a foundation for Catholi...