The third International Symposium on Jesuit Studies took place at Boston College in June 2017. Its theme considered the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas.
Several scholars were invited to revise their presentations as formal essays, which were then peer reviewed and published in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas available through Brill Publishers. The essays are not available in open access. The contents include:
Introduction: Protestantism and Early Jesuits
— Robert Aleksander Maryks
Asia
— R.P. Hsia
— Makoto Harris Takao
Kirishitan Veneration of the Saints: Jesuit and Dutch Witnesses
— Haruko Nawata Ward
Jesuit and Protestant Use of Vernacular Chinese in Accommodation Policy
— Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Shaping the Anthropological Context of the “Salus populi Sinensis” Madonna Icon in Xian, China
— Hui-Hung Chen
Jesuit and Protestant Encounters in Jiangnan: Contest and Cooperation in China’s Lower Yangzi Region
— Steven Pieragastini
Protestant and Jesuit Encounters in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
— Délio Mendonça
Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country
— Michelle Zaleski
The Americas
Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity
— Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
— Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães
— Anne B. McGinness
— Steve Lenik
“Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it”: Jesuit and Calvinist Missions on the New World Frontier
— Catherine Ballériaux
“Americans, you are marked for their prey!” Jesuits and the Nineteenth-century Nativist Impulse
— Robert Emmett Curran
Wars of Words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in Nineteenth-Century America
— Steven Mailloux