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Harvard University Press has published Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet, edited and written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., and Thupten Jinpa. The book focuses on Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit priest who worked as a missionary in Tibet in the 1720s. Desideri, according to the publisher, undertook an “ambitious
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The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939–1945) Edited by: Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset and Christian TaoutelIHSI Global 2.€35Language englishISBN 978-88-7041-502-5 This book is available from March 1, 2026 The Second World War changed the world’s economic, political and social order. It was also a humanitarian disaster on a scale never
Interview with the Missionary: Frequently Asked Questions for Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies Volume Authors: Elisa Frei, and Christoph Nebgen Copyright Year: 2025 The open access publication of this book was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. E-BookAvailability: PublishedISBN (pdf): 978-1-947617-41-4ISBN (epub): 978-1-947617-36-0Publication: 24 October 2025 HardbackAvailability: PublishedISBN: 978-1-947617-29-2Publication: 10 November
Jesuit Educational Quarterly (JEQ) is pleased to announce a call for manuscript submissions on the topic of “Educational Leadership and the Jesuit Tradition.” With education as a central mission of the Society of Jesus, educational leadership has figured centrally in implementing that mission, in understanding that mission, and in engaging the modern world through that
World of Jesuit Archives (WJA) is a collaborative project with Jesuit archives around the world and aims to raise awareness and appreciation of the documentary heritage of the Society of Jesus, the institutions responsible for the conservation of archival material, and the people involved in the management of the collections in which the Society’s history
Geohistory is the study of a double relation, of nature to man and of man to nature, the study of action and reaction, mixed, confused, repeated endlessly in the reality of each day.It is indeed the quality, the power of this effort that forces us to reverse the usual approach of the Geographer. Fernand Braudel,
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History has relocated from the University of San Francisco to Boston College. The institute’s new website is: https://www.bc.edu/ricci The Ricci Institute has also issued a call for fellowships, including for its doctoral and Luce Postdoctoral programs. The doctoral program is open to all doctoral candidates who have completed all course work and
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has issued a called for papers for its 2022 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies. The theme of the symposium is “The Jesuits and the Church in History.” The event takes place August 1–4 at Boston College. Submissions are due December 6, 2021. More information appears below. INTERNATIONAL
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