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The Macau Ricci Institute has launched a new, bi-annual publication — the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute.   Dedicated as a “Journal of Moral Leadership, Social Innovation and Comparative Spirituality,” the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is edited by Stephan Rothlin and co-edited by Dennis P. McCann and Mike J. Thompson. Thierry Meynard is the associate […]

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco welcomes applications for two types of fellowships for the summer of 2018.   The fellowships facilitate and promote research of the history of Chinese-Western cultural exchange and/or the history of Christianity in China. “Topics of enquiry may include,” according to the institute’s website, “Chinese-Western cultural

Francisco Malta Romeiras, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, participates at text-based workshop on November 14 at Harvard University. The presentation is part of the two-day event “Pre-Modern Sciences & Religion,” a workshop hosted by Harvard Divinity School’s Science, Religion, and Culture program. Other participants are Nicholas Boylston, Harvard University Vincenzo

Girolamo Imbruglia has published The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568-1789). The new books “explores the religious foundations of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, and the discussion of the missionary experience in the public opinion of early modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot,” according to Brill Publishers.   In particular,

Two 17th-century handbooks by Francesco Sacchini, on his method of teaching in Jesuit lower schools, are available with the new bilingual volume Exhortación y preceptiva para los maestros de las escuelas inferiores de la Compañía de Jesús. The work is co-edited by Javier Laspalas of the Universidad de Navarra and Alejandro Martínez of the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko

Jesuit Sources has published a new English translation of The Duties of a Teacher, a handbook issued by the National Education Commission of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1787. Duties was written by Grzegorz Piramowicz, a former Jesuit teacher who sought to guide how grammar school teachers could serve the larger society. According to the publisher, Piramowicz “lays out a

Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series has published its tenth volume, The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632). The text is published by four authors: Víctor M. Fernández  of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Jorge de Torres of the British Museum, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner of the University of Gondär, Ethiopia, and Carlos Cañete of the Centro de Ciencias

Between July 11 and July 14 in Nairobi, the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (JHIA) hosts an important scholarly conference examining historical encounters between Catholics and Protestants in Africa. The event, marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, gathers more than 20 scholars to consider the “ecumenical important” of those encounters, addressing such questions

Barton Geger, SJ, and the Seminar of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits host the second annual Faber Symposium from June 16-18 at Our Lady of Angels Mission in Chicago, Illinois.   In keeping with the efforts of George Ganss, John Sheets, Martin Palmer, and David Fleming to heed the Second Vatican Council’s call to