A new essay on the historiography of the Society of Jesus in Korea is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay, authored by Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch, examines how historians have treated the Jesuits’ “important influence” on Korea Catholicism despite the fact that “until the 1950s, only […]
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A new essay on the historiography of Jesuits in post-restoration India (since 1834) is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay is authored by Savio Abreu, S.J., director of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa. Abreu begins by tracing the treatments of the suppression and restoration of
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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
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What am I searching? Through the Portal to Jesuit Studies, you have access to sources related to the history, the spirituality, the educational heritage, and the academic study of the Society of Jesus. These sources are located at disparate websites, but their contents are all available through the Portal’s aggregate search engine. What you have
“The founding of the Society of Jesus,” Jesuit historian Joseph Conwell has argued, “begins with a discernment process.” The fruits of that process of discernment appear in the following document, Cum ex plurim, written by Ignatius and his companions in 1539. The document articulates the founders’ vision for what became the Jesuit order. Indeed, five
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Title Year Ignatius on Reconciliation 1542 Ignatius on Obedience 1542 Ignatius on Writing 1542
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Author Document Title Date Contributor Maruca, Dominic (translator) Deliberations of Our First Fathers 1539 Maryland Province, Society of Jesus Conwell, Joseph F. (translator) Cum Ex Plurium (Prima Societatis Iesu instituti summa) 1539 Oregon Province, Society of Jesus Costellone, M. Joseph (translator) The First Jesuits’ Vow of Obedience 1539 Institute of Jesuit Sources Five Chapters
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Loyola University Chicago hosted a Jesuit Studies Roundtable in advance of the annual Renaissance Society of America conference. Organized by Emanuele Colombo (Depaul University) and Stephen Schloesser (Loyola), the workshop consisted of presentations of current and future scholarly and digital projects. Presenting were: Scott Hendrickson, SJ, on “Continued Research on Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, SJ (1595-1658)”;
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Spencer Weinreich has published a new translation of the Pedro de Ridabeneira’s “Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England” as part of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Weinreich’s is the first English translation of the text that Ribadeneira began in 1588 and continued to edit until his death in 1611. With this
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Jesuit Sources announces the availability of e-books, with the following six titles in pdf format: The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, by Matteo Ricci, edited by Thierry Meynard, SJ, and translated by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kou-chen, SJ The Spiritual Doctrine, by Louis Lallemant and translated by Patricia M. Ranum The Exercise
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