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On October 4, John Padberg, SJ, noted historian and former editor of Jesuit Sources, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College to deliver the second installment of the Feore Family Lecture Series on Jesuit Studies. Padberg’s lecture–entitled “And Then What?”–considers ath happened to the Society of Jesus and its members in the […]

  Jesuit Historiography Online is an Open Access resource that will offer more than 70 scholarly essays that summarize the state of scholarship in the variety of fields in Jesuit Studies. The essays explore trends in Jesuit historiography and provide a nuanced, systematic, and in-depth analysis of what has been written—when, why, and by whom.  

The directory allows for the searching of the titles, authors, and subjects of the more than 1,000 volumes of Boston College Libraries’ Jesuitica collection available online through archive.org.

Founded at St. Louis in 1961 as the Institute of Jesuit Sources, Jesuit Sources specializes in preserving, maintaining, and expanding for scholars around the world important texts and studies in Jesuit history, spirituality, and pedagogy. It publishes Jesuit primary sources in English translation and auxiliary literature in Jesuit studies and currently features more than 100 volumes.

The Portal’s Essential Document collection offers free access to English translations of some of the most important primary sources in Jesuit history. The selected documents include letters and addresses from the Fathers General–dating back to Ignatius of Loyola–selected decrees and addresses from the General Congregations, and bulls, remarks, and other statements that pontiffs have made

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes Jeffrey Muller to Boston College as a Senior Research Fellow for the fall semester. Muller, professor of Art and Architecture at Brown University, is working on a new project about the Jesuit global strategy of accommodation. In this project he asks: How did the Jesuits fashion their interactions