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The International Symposium on Jesuit Studies opens today at Boston College with a keynote address by Festo Mkenda, SJ, of Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa in Nairobi.   The event consists of five panels examining the theme of “Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas.”   In addition to Mkenda, keynote addresses […]

In the current issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, historian Judith Rock examines the motivation, widespread production, and professionalism of ballets at Jesuit colleges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. “The Jesuit college ballets,” she writes, “are a rich nexus of … art, theology, philosophy, and culture.”   Rock’s essay and the entire contents

Michael Lombardo’s Founding Father, now available in Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series, is the first critical biography John Wynne, S.J., the founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia and America magazine. According to Brill, “Lombardo uses theological inculturation to explore the ways in which Wynne used his publications to negotiate American Catholic citizenship during the Progressive Era.”

With Conscience of a Nation, Novalis has recent published the third and final volume of its three-volume history of the Jesuits in English Canada (1842-2013). The publisher notes that the text surveys “Jesuit spirituality and formation, as well as the society’s work with ecology, education, and foreign missions.” The previous two volumes (on Jesuits as teachers

Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), a conference in Rome (30 May-1 June), seeks to “compare missionaries’ roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent.”   Panels are centered on communicative settings for missionary work (urban, court, settings, and rural), and presentations include:   “Jesuit