This page displays relevant official documents from the Society of Jesus related to arts and the artists, official magisterial documents or Church documents, as well as intellectual work from renowned individual Jesuits that offer a better understanding of what the relation between the Society and the arts is. It is intended to be a collection […]
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Early Modern Jesuit Writing of History as an Inspiration for Central European Historians before 1773 Jakub Zouhar[1] Univerzita Hradec Králové Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.23 Introduction The phenomenon of early modern Jesuit historiography and its influence on other scholars in central Europe is of wider than regional importance. Nevertheless, the
Invisible Histories, Silenced Histories of the Philippines: The Labor evangélica: Ministerios apostólicos de los obreros de la Compañía de Jesús; Segunda parte (c.1701) by the Jesuit Diego de Oña (1655–1721) Alexandre Coello de la Rosa Universitat Pompeu Fabra Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.13 From the early years of his
In 1872, Superior General of the Society of Jesus Pieter Jan Beckx stood in the Church of the Gesù in Rome and consecrated the Jesuits’ order to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One hundred years later, Pedro Arrupe renewed the Act of Consecration, explaining the reasons for his decision in the following letter that he
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This page displays relevant official documents from the Society of Jesus related to arts and the artists, official magisterial documents or Church documents, as well as intellectual work from renowned individual Jesuits that offer a better understanding of what the relation between the Society and the arts is. It is intended to be a collection
Jesuit Institutional Change in the 1970s: Its Impact on Jesuit Sources and Historiography, and the Future of Jesuit Archives in Francophone Africa and Europe Barbara Baudry, Archives Jésuites, Province d’Europe Occidentale Francophone Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J., Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.31 This essay explores how
On October 15 and 16, the Université de Bretagne-Sud hosts a virtual conference examining missionaries of 16th to the 19th centuries. Hélène Vu Thanh, of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, is the conference organizer. “Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles)” [Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empire, 16th-19th c.] features fourteen presentations over the two-day
Linda A. Newson has edited a new collection of essays entitled Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, published by the University of London Press and the Institute of Latin American Studies. Thirteen scholars contribute to essays examining “the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture,” from the diverse activities by the
The 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, taking place in Chicago, January 3-6, features panels, papers, and a poster on Jesuit Studies. Information about those relevant presentations appears below. To learn more about the AHA meeting, please visit: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Panel: Jesuit Imagination, Strategy, and
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In the following homily from 1973, Pedro Arrupe asks that people embrace the most authentic expression of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by sharing effective love with one another. Such sharing would be a suitable response to the “sign of love” Jesus gave from the cross. For more sources from Arrupe, please visit The
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