“You only torment and upset yourself”: Replies to a Restless Writer at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century[1] Elisa Frei Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.18 Introduction Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491–1556) founded the Society of Jesus in 1540 as an apostolic order, but from the […]
Philosophy at the Geopolitical Service of Mission: The Coimbra Jesuits’ “Wirkungsgeographie” (1542–1730) Mário Santiago de Carvalho Universidade de Coimbra Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.25 Almost as soon as it had been born, the Society of Jesus rapidly transformed into a “geographical network that virtually encircled the world.”[1] This essay
From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives[1] Damien Burke Irish Archives of the Society of Jesus Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.09 Introduction Photographs are fragile objects: physically, they are easily torn, discolored, and mislaid; digitally, the advent of smartphones with the maelstrom of social media means
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In June 2016, the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies took place at the Jesuit Historical Institute of Africa and Madagascar in Nairobi, Kenya. Emerging from the second symposium, Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offers two introductory essays (one by Robert Maryks and the other by Festo Mkenda, S.J.) and 12 chapters. Due to support from the Institute
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The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. This project provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than 16,000 books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers, and other scholarly works
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Selected presentations from the 2016 International Symposia on Jesuit Studies series are available in Open Access in Brill’s Jesuit Studies series. The symposium, held in Nairobi, was hosted by Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (JHIA) in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. The event was the second annual gathering of scholars organized by
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