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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 […]

The Jesuit Online Bibliography — a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century — has published more than 6,000 new records as it celebrates its second anniversary. The database now provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than

The Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024, and its staff welcomes proposals for a publication to commemorate the occasion.   The publication will highlight research conducted during the last two decades among the Jesuitica collections at the Maurits Sabbe Library. Proposals for articles (the final draft of which should be between

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York has organized a seminar with presentations on the theme “How to be a Jesuit Saint in 1622 ca: The Canonisation of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier in Context.” The online event takes place on June 26, 2021. Advanced registration is required.   The

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

The Gregorian Archives is hosting a series of online seminars led by researchers who consult the facility’s archival manuscripts.   The first seminar occurs on June 7, 2021. It will be led by Karie Schultz, with a presentation titled “Education and Confessional Identity: The Collegio Romano in the Seventeenth Century.” Archivist and Prof. Martín M. Morales

A facsimile of the Spiritual Exercises — what some call the “manoscritto spagnolo” dating back to 1544 — is now available online and in open access at https://archive.org/details/ejerciciosespiri00igna/page/n7/mode/2up . The volume was first published in 1908.   Permission to digitize the title was granted by Brian Mac Cuarta, S.J., direttore accademico of the Archivum Romanum Societatis

The POLY research group — Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE) — is hosting an online lecture series between April 2021 and June 2021.   The purpose of the the Frankfurt Lectures on Pathways through Early Modern Christianities is to facilitate the discussion of “the fascinating nature of early modern religious life,” with

Because of the global pandemic, the date for the XVIII Jornadas Internacionales sobre las Misiones Jesuíticas has been changed to November 8-11, 2022.   The conference will take place in Montevideo. Its theme is: “LAS MISIONES JESUÍTICAS PENSADAS DESDE EL SIGLO XXI: sentidos de la asimilación, traducciones regionales y formas locales del proyecto ecuménico jesuítico.”  

A free webinar takes place on April 16, 2021, on the theme “Translating and Connecting Worlds: Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and Cultural Pluralism. Experiences from the Past.”   The event is organized by ISEM CNR – National Research Council in the framework of the European Project “ReIReS” (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies).   “Translating and Connecting