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Worshipers before a statue of the Virgin at Saint Mary's Basilica.
Readings describe local Catholic communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. The course is organized according to special topics that illuminate processes of globalization and localization: worship and inculturation; Catholic Charismaticism and healing movements; gender and family; conversion and interreligious encounters; saints and sanctity; and liberation and struggles for social justice. Throughout the semester, we return repeatedly to the question of how Catholicism can be both a local culture and a global system.
Follow Marc Loustau's blog for a weekly review of lessons, readings and resources, as well as the author's impressions as a first-time teacher of global Catholicism of what worked and what didn't in the classroom.
Lessons in this Group
- Week 1: What do you think of when you think of “global?”
- Week 2: How do you teach the basics of Catholicism to a group of Catholic students? (Part 1)
- Week 2: Festas and demographics
- Week 3: Gender and life-cycle solutions
- Week 4: Who is present for the Inculturated Mass?
- Week 4: What comes to mind when we say “the globe?”
- Week 5: Teaching All Souls’ Day, church/state issues, and the politics of changing rituals
- Week 6: Would you recommend funding Mercy House?
- Week 8: Driving while Charismatic
- Week 9: Kudagama: From pilgrimage site to Charismatic 'hot-spot'
- Week 10: Vatican II's grassroots
- Week 12: Replicated shrines and the 'devotional capital' of pilgrimage
- Week 13: Sensuous descriptions
- Week 14: Public and Pentecostal schools
- Week 15: Reprising a brainstorm
- Mixed reflections on weekly reflection assignment