Catholic Missionaries of the Holy Land' and the Nahda: The Case of the Salesian Society (1904-1920)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, some Palestinian and Lebanese Salesians, influenced by the Arab Renaissance movement, began to claim the right to oppose the directorships' of the institutes of the Don Bosco Society in Bethlehem and the surrounding area. They also began to request be...
| Published in: | Social sciences and missions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Social sciences and missions
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious Protectorate
B gouvernement italien B Italian Government B protectorat religieux B Salésiens B Nahda B Patriarcat latin de Jérusalem B Holy See B Salesians B Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem B Saint Siège |
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| Summary: | At the beginning of the twentieth century, some Palestinian and Lebanese Salesians, influenced by the Arab Renaissance movement, began to claim the right to oppose the directorships' of the institutes of the Don Bosco Society in Bethlehem and the surrounding area. They also began to request better recognition of their native language, in schools and within the religious community. They clashed with their superiors who, in the meantime, had signed an agreement with the Salesian government in Rome, committing them to developing the Italian language in their teaching institutes. The struggle became particularly fierce after the Holy See rebuked the Palestinian religious congregations for teaching the catechism and explaining the Sunday Gospel to people in a foreign language and urged them to do so in Arabic. The clash caused a serious disturbance within the Salesian community. Finally, after the First World War, the most turbulent Arab religious were removed from the Society of Don Bosco. All converged in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, where they continued forcefully (but in vain) to put forward their national demands. This article is based on several unpublished sources. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03203020 |