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April 2016: Pedagogy Reader Available Through Jesuit Sources

Jesuit Sources formally launches the first volume published since its move from St. Louis to Boston College. Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540-1616: A Reader is edited by Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, SJ. As the publisher summarizes: “Once they had begun educating youth, the Jesuits never stopped thinking about pedagogy. The Ratio studiorum (1599), widely celebrated for […]

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December 2015: First Volume of Stumpf’s Acta Pekinensia Published by IHSI

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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October 2015: Published Collection on Jesuit Suppression

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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July 2015: New Collection on Laínez Published by IHSI

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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July 2015: New Book on Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesui, by John O’Malley

John O’Malley’s Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago Primi Saeculi, available through St. Joseph’s University Press. The Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu, a 952 folio-sized volume of poetry, prose with 127 exquisite copperplate engravings, celebrated the Society’s centenary in 1640. The publisher calls O’Malley’s text, “the most comprehensive study of the important book ever to

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June 2015: Certificate in Jesuit Studies Program Opens in Spain

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies beings the inaugural Certificate in Jesuit Studies program. Participants from Japan, Ireland, and throughout the United States begin the program with experiential learning in Spain and Rome as they visit some of the most important sites associated with the history and spirituality of the Society of Jesus. The nine-credit

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June 2015: Inaugural Symposium on Jesuit Studies Held

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosts the inaugural International Symposium on Jesuit Studies at Boston College. The event’s program (available here) features an inauguration by William P. Leahy, S.J., president of Boston College, and three keynote address: John O’Malley on “Aspects of the Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus;” Paul Grendler on “The Culture of the

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May 2015: New Biography of Jesuit Polymath, Juan Eusebio Nieremerg

Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series features its fourth volume, Jesuit Polymath of Madrid: The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658) by D. Scott Hendrickson, SJ. The publisher notes: “In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual

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