The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.”
The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind peer review. All necessary information for reference for each essay appears on its downloadable pdf document. Essays will be published on a rolling basis.
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E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 978-1-947617-35-3
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2023)
Table of Contents
Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission Through the Centuries
Introduction and Keynotes
Introduction
Authors: Alessandro Corsi, Claudio Ferlan, and Francisco Malta Romeiras
Jesuit Missions and Multilateral “Accommodations” in the Early Modern World
Author: Camilla Russel
The Conversion of the Jesuits: Slavery, Authoritarianism, and the Catholic Church in Haiti
Author: Malick W. Ghachem
Section 1. Europe
Reception of the Sixteenth-Century Jesuit Mission in Japan and Japanese Martyrs in Early Eighteenth-Century Poland: Oratio XVI; Tres heroes ad stemma crucis admissi seu Nobilitas martyrum Japonensium S[ocietatis]J[esu] by Andrzej Michał Temberski, S.J.
Author: Bartosz Awianowicz
An Army of the Devil in the Indie Romane: The Jesuits’ Struggle against Religious Ignorance in the Early Seventeenth Century
Author: Jacopo Bertol
Gaudium inter luctus. The Diffusion of Jesuits’ Ideas in Eighteenth-century Hungary
Author: Katarína Karabová
Jesuit Missionaries in the Twentieth Century. Experiences and Reflections from the Magazine Le Missioni della Compagnia di Gesù (1915–69)
Author: Daiana Menti
A Missionary Poetics of Translation: Tommaso Stanislao Velasti as a Jesuit Cultural Broker in the Levant
Author: Mara Psalti
The English Jesuit Mission: At the Edge of Europe; At the Crossroads of Worldwide Mission
Author: Robert E. Scully, S.J.
Section 2. Asia
The China Mission at Work (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries): Outcomes of the Res Sinicae Project
Author: Cristina Costa Gomes, and João Teles e Cunha
A Mission between Two Missions. Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) History of Japan
Author: Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Jesuit Procurators and the East Asian Missions in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: – Material Cultures in Motion
Author: Diogo Reis Pereira
Goa, Lisbon, and Rome: A “Triangle” of Business and Culture
Author: Maria João Pereira Coutinho
Entangled in the global networks of Macau: Jesuit Procurators and their Business in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Leonor Pratas
Comparisons between the manuscript from José Monteiro and the surviving documents in Chinese and other European languages
Author: Di Wu
Section 3. America
Michel de Certeau (1926–86) and his Travels to Latin America: the Reconfiguration of the Notion of Mission
Author: Carlos Alvarez, S.J.
Calling upon the Angels of a Place: The Renewed Appreciation of Place in the Missiology of Pierre Charles, S.J. (1883–1954)
Authors: Andrew Barrette
A Prosopography of Jesuit “Musical Missionaries” in the Early Modern Era
Author: Daniele V. Filippi
Counter-Reformation Colonialism: The Knatchbull Catechism in Seventeenth-Century Maryland
Author: Helen Kilburn
Joseph de Jouvancy, Historian of the Society of Jesus, on the Jesuit Mission to New France
Author: Manfred Kraus
The Churches of the Jesuit Guaraní and Chiquitos Missions: Rethinking the Architectural History of the Missions
Author: Eckart Kühne