Belgian Rural Cooperation

Rawe, John C.; Ross, Eva J.

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“…The Conference particularly supported the trend of biodynamic farming, which advocated utilizing animal manure instead of commercial fertilizer and animal power instead of expensive farm machinery. Home arts and crafts could also aid the self‐sufficiency of family farms, the NCRLC argued (Dutton n.d.; Rawe : 1–3, 20–22; NCRLC minutes binder (): 161).…”

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The Middle Way: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Rural Issues in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

Bovée¹

2016

American J Econ Sociol

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This article explains how the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), from its founding in 1923 to the present, applied basic Catholic principles in response to a succession of changes in American rural society. In doing so, it proposed a middle way between capitalism and socialism and between the Democratic and Republican parties. In the 1920s, the Reverend Edwin V. O'Hara founded the NCRLC mainly to bolster the demographically weak rural Church. In the 1930s, the NCRLC turned to economic concerns in response to the Great Depression. It supported many New Deal programs that helped farmers as well as cooperatives and a “back‐to‐the‐land” movement. The Conference consistently supported the family farm as the basic institution of a morally and economically sound rural society. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Conference entered the realm of international affairs under Monsignor Luigi G. Ligutti and addressed problems of world hunger, land reform, and underdeveloped countries. Under Monsignor Edward W. O'Rourke, who became director in 1960, the NCRLC joined in the movement for social justice and campaigned for the rights of the rural poor and migrant farm workers. Starting around 1970, the Conference became increasingly interested in environmental and energy issues. The NCRLC is in harmony with the 21st‐century pope, Francis, on rural and ecological issues.

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The Middle Way: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Rural Issues in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

Bovée¹

2016

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“…Secondly, in each context similar discursive and organisational strategies in the form of such things as study circles, public lectures, summer schools, confessional periodicals, and co-operative movements (Brewer 2007;Gauvreau 2005;Kivisto 1989;Varacalli 1990;Fichter 1973;Rawe 1940;Waldron 1950) were adopted to promote and disseminate this new way of "doing" sociology. What remains puzzling about the specifically Irish experience is how sudden and dramatic the turn to secular sociology-and away from the earlier Catholic sociology phase-was in the 1950s.…”

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Catholic Sociology in Ireland in Comparative Perspective

Conway

2011

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This paper examines the relationship between the Catholic Church and Irish sociology within a comparative framework. Drawing on archival and documentary research, this linkage is investigated at an institutional and intellectual level, across three stages of the "career" of Irish Catholic sociology, and employing comparisons with Catholic sociology in France, Germany, and the United States. I discern important sources of variation between the four cases including major intellectuals, organisational hosts, and publishing outlets. Irish Catholic sociology's quite sudden movement in the direction of secular sociology in the 1950s is explained as a result of normative pressure to jettison its value-driven orientation as a result of more frequent interaction with the mainstream discipline via scholarly collaboration, the reforms of Vatican II emphasising engagement with the modern world, the demise of the broader Catholic Action movement of which it was a part, and changes in the national higher education environment.

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Belgian Rural Cooperation

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The Middle Way: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Rural Issues in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

The Middle Way: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Rural Issues in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

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