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November 2025: New Publication – Interview with the Missionary: Frequently Asked Questions for Jesuit Petitioners to the Indies

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Interview with the Missionary: Frequently Asked Questions for Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies Volume Authors: Elisa Frei, and Christoph Nebgen Copyright Year: 2025 The open access publication of this book was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. E-BookAvailability: PublishedISBN (pdf): 978-1-947617-41-4ISBN (epub): 978-1-947617-36-0Publication: 24 October 2025 HardbackAvailability: PublishedISBN: 978-1-947617-29-2Publication: 10 November […]

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The Portal to Jesuit Studies provides access to a collection of primary sources and scholarship in Jesuit Studies. Explore IAJS Research Tools Jesuit Online Bibliography Bibliographical records of 21st Century Jesuit Studies scholarship Jesuit Studies Digital Collection Repository for digitized documents and indexes provided by the IAJS Digital Indipetae Database Transcribed petitions by Jesuits requesting to be sent

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June 2021: New Publication Series — Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity

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Leuven University Press inaugurates a new series entitled ‘Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity’ with the publication of Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives.   The LUP’s new series “aims to showcase groundbreaking works on the history of missionaries and missionary organisations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” Titles will “steer mission history towards new thematic frontiers by

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April 2020: Fourth Season of the Jesuit Studies Café Series Closes with Jean-Pascal Gay

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The popular Jesuit Studies Café series closes its fourth season on April 24 with a presentation led by Jean-Pascal Gay of the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Gay speaks on “Why Theology Should Matter to Historians. Knowledge and Agency in the Early Modern Society. Around Théophile Raynaud (1583–1665).” Registration for the event is required. The deadline is

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March 2020: Digital Indipetae Database Now Available

The indipetae were letters written by Jesuits to their Superior General in application for the extra-European missions, usually called the “Indies.” In Latin, applying for the Indies was petere Indias; from this are derived the expressions indipetae (the letters) and indipeti (the applicants). After the Suppression (1773) and the Restoration (1814) of the Society of

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Digital Indipetae Database

  The indipetae were letters written by Jesuits to their Superior General in application for the extra-European missions, usually called the “Indies.” In Latin, applying for the Indies was petere Indias; from this are derived the expressions indipetae (the letters) and indipeti (the applicants). After the Suppression (1773) and the Restoration (1814) of the Society of Jesus, the tradition of writing these

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February 2020: Program for 2020 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, “Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History”

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Because of the continuing threat of the coronavirus and various health and safety restrictions, the 2020 International Symposium was originally delayed to June 2021 before being cancelled in its entirety. Below is the original program for the event as scheduled for June 2020.   The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, together with its co-organizer Brotéria, is very

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October 2019: Sangelli Institute Hosts International Workshop on Education and Culture

A three-day workshop begins October 2 at the Istituto Sangalli in Florence. The event features a number of scholars from around the world to present on the topic “Entangled Knowledges: Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (XIIIth-XIXth C).”   This is the fifth international workshop hosted by the Istituto Sangalli, allowing emerging scholars

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Cover Letter to the Revised Ratio studiorum, Jan Roothaan (1832)

The 20th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, held in 1820, the first following the Jesuits’ restoration, offered an opportunity for the religious order to respond to the system of state-sponsored, or at least state-sanctioned, schools that had emerged since its suppression in 1773. The restored Jesuits faced the challenge of adjusting to the

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May 2018: Jesuit-Related Papers at Scientiae conference

The annual Scientiae conference, held this year at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, takes place from May 16-18, 2018. Keynote addresses for this conference dedicated to “disciplines of knowing in the early modern world” will be delivered by Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Vladimir Urbanek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).   More details

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