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Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Use of Sources: Critical History and Hagiography in the Early Society of Jesus Robert E. Scully, S.J. Le Moyne College Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.02 Where can and should one draw the line between fact and fiction, norms and ideals, history and hagiography? The
Visions of Contemplation: Jesuits and Their Rhetoric of Persuasion in Japan Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail Indiana University Originally published: July 14, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.22 When Saint Francis Xavier set sail to India on April 7, 1541,[1] it was about a year before the first Europeans “discovered” Japan.[2] Xavier was nominated núncio apostólico (apostolic
Knowledge and Personal Expectancies: Jesuit Intellectual Culture and Missionary Experience in the Early Jesuit Province of New Spain Hugo Zayas-González Central Michigan University Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.28 On October 28, 1575, Superior General Everard Mercurian (in office 1573–80) explained to Antonio Cordeses, provincial of Aragon, that his decision
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
François Pomey’s Candidatus rhetoricae and Its Revisions as Documents of the History of Jesuit Rhetorical Education Manfred Kraus Universität Tübingen Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.05 Writing the history of Jesuit education is not an easy task. But it gets particularly difficult when it comes to elucidating what actually went
Jesuit Science in America: The Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists (1922–66) Francisco Malta Romeiras Universidade de Lisboa Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.24 Introduction In August 1922, a group of teachers from East Coast colleges and universities established the American Association of Jesuit Scientists. Although it was
The Materiality of Catholic Resistance in Sources for the English Jesuit Mission Aislinn Muller Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.21 The Society of Jesus played a critical role in preserving the material culture of English Catholicism, which came under assault following the Reformation of 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
