A free service provided by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, the Portal offers informed direction to some of the richest materials associated with the Society of Jesus located at a variety of websites. The Portal grants online access to a curated and fully searchable collection of important primary sources and some of the latest
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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.
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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.
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International Symposia on Jesuit Studies are held on an annual basis, providing opportunities for academic exchange within the global community of Jesuit Studies scholars. Each year, the Institute invites some of the presenters to revise their presentations into essays, which are peer reviewed and published, both in print and online in Open Access. The
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The Journal of Jesuit Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to the study of Jesuit history, publishing research articles and a substantial number of book reviews. The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies provided the financial support to make the journal’s first five years available in Open Access, during which time the publication was indexed by both SCOPUS
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The Portal’s Essential Document Project 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
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Essential Documents A collection of some of the most important primary sources in Jesuit history. Materials include letters and addresses from the Fathers General, selected decrees and important addresses from the General Congregations, and papal bulls, remarks, and other statements to or about the Society of Jesus. Jesuit Online Library The Jesuit Online Library allows
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
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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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