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Jesuit Sources Jesuit Sources publishes more than 100 volumes to promote its mission to preserve, maintain, and expand for scholars around the world important texts and studies in Jesuit history, spirituality, and pedagogy. Jesuit Maps The Jesuit Maps project aims to make interactive maps available using research in the field of Jesuit Studies conducted by
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Between June 28 and July 1, the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College co-host the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in Nairobi, Kenya. The topic of the symposium, “Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa,” uses the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation as “an ideal
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Brill has published Jesuit Image Theory, edited by Wietse de Boer, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Walter S. Melion. The volume (including 97 color images) looks at “Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical.” Contributions to the volume include: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions
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The inaugural Faber Symposium–designed to nurture a new generation of Jesuit writers on the scholarly examination of the original charism of the Society of Jesus–takes place this month in Chicago, Illinois. What will be an annual event, the Faber Symposium is organized and hosted by Barton Geger, SJ, the new editor of Studies in
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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins is now available online. Hosted through Oxford University Press, the two volumes of correspondence and one volume of The Dublin Notebook were first published in print in 2013.
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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published the first volume of Kilian Stumpf’s The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani, the book presents, for the first time in English, the account of the first years (December 1705-August 1706) of the visit to China
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Setting Off from Macau: Essays on Jesuit History during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, by Tang Kaijian, is the newest volume in the Jesuit Studies book series by Brill Publishers, which notes: “It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role
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An extensive account, Diego Laínez (1512-1565) and His Generalate, has been published by Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI). Paul Oberholzer S.J. edits the multi-volume examination of the “Jesuit with Jewish Roots, Close Confidant of Ignatius of Loyola, [and] Preeminent Theologian of the Council of Trent.” Adolfo Nicolas, the sitting superior general, offers some introductory remarks. In
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