On May 4, Columbia University hosts “From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue: A Symposium on the History of Art, Science, and Religion in Jesuit China.” Daniel Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, both Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows at Columbia, have organized the event. Speakers at the symposium are: — Florence Hsia of University of Wisconsin, […]
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The newest addition to the Jesuit Studies book series at Brill is Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014. The volume emerged from a 2014 conference at Loyola University Chicago, held on the 200th anniversary of Pope Pius VII’s restoration of the Society of Jesus. It is edited by Kyle B. Roberts
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After the Spiritual Exercises, perhaps until the publication and translation of his “autobiography,” the writings of Ignatius were perhaps best known for this letter, commonly known as the “Letter on Obedience” to the Province of Portugal. Generations of Jesuits heard it read at table once a month in their refectories. Ignatius writes here during a
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The Jesuit Online Library allows users to search 39 Jesuit titles, across more than 150,000 pages in more than 1,000 volumes, simultaneously or to browse single volumes individually. Full-text searches can be refined by title, date, publication, or author. To learn more about the titles of books and journals in English, French, German, Spanish, Latin,
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The first volume based the International Symposia on Jesuit Studies has been published as part of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus offers an introductory essay and 12 chapters. According to the publisher, “The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and
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Daniel Cosacchi and Eric Martin, both doctoral students at American Jesuit universities (Loyola University Chicago and Fordham University, respectively) have published a selection of the correspondence between Daniel and Philip Berrigan. The Berrigan Letters, available through Orbis Books, spans seven decades of correspondence between, what the publisher describes as, “the brothers famed for their social
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On March 1, Daniel Greenberg, lecturer in Asian Art and East Asian Studies at Smith College, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to present on “Landscapes of Power: Mongol Ritual, Jesuit Painting, and the Construction of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Empire.” Greenberg’s remarks at Boston College consider the meaning behind paintings completed by the Jesuit missionary
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Oxford University Press has published The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences, edited by Jeffrey Burson (Georgia Southern University) and Jonathan Wright (University of Oxford). Contents of this volume include: Plots and rumors of plots: the role of conspiracy in the international campaign against the Society of Jesus, 1758–68, by Dale K. Van
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Victor Salas and Robert Fastiggi have edited A Companion to Francisco Suarez, a detailed examination of the Jesuit’s philosophical and theological scholasticism. Published through Brill, the volume fourteen essays: Introduction: Francisco Suárez, the Man and His Work, by Victor Salas and Robert Fastigg; Political Thought and Legal Theory in Suárez, by Jean-Paul Coujou; Suárez, Heidegger, and
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