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 […]
More than 20,000 pages of correspondence related to past superiors of the Maryland Mission and past provincials of the Maryland Province have been digitized and made available through DigitalGeorgetown. The content is part of the Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which is on deposit at Georgetown University. The digitized
August 2021: Newly Digitized Materials from the Maryland Province Archives Now Available Read More »
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
“Regulations for Our Black People”: Reconstructing the Experiences of Enslaved People in the United States through Jesuit Records Kelly L. Schmidt Loyola University Chicago Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.12 In the Jesuit Archives and Research Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, there are only two folders labeled “Slaves, Slavery.” One is housed in the
Slaveholding and Jesuit Recordkeeping in the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, 1717–1867 Elsa B. Mendoza Georgetown University Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.11 On November 5, 1755, Nanny, a woman enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits, gave birth to a boy named John at Bohemia plantation. The records show
A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland Laura E. Masur The Catholic University of America Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.10 An old negro, the white-washer about St. Thomas’, told me a nice story of Father Hunter. One night, it was pitch dark, two young men came from Virginia
A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland, by Laura E. Masur Read More »
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
From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives, by Damien Burke Read More »
James Bernauer, S.J., has published a new history of the development in Jesuits’ attitudes towards Judaism in the mid 20th century. Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance, published by University of Notre Dame Press, examines how Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Holocaust gave way to a “new understanding of the Catholic Church’s relation to Judaism that
April 2020: New History of Jesuits’ Changing Views of Judaism Read More »
Edited by Ines G. Županov, The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits is now available in print. The 40 chapters were previously only available online. Bibliographical citations for the book and the chapters are included within the Jesuit Online Bibliography. By focusing on the Jesuits, “one of the first institutions with a truly ‘global’ reach, in practice
July 2019: The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits Now Available in Print Read More »
