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The University of Montpellier 3 has issued a call for papers on its first international symposium on “Cross-cultural encounter as a mediatic enterprise.” The November 2018 in Paris event focuses on Japan’s first embassy to Europe (1582-1590) and subsequent publication of De missione legatorum iaponensium ad Romanam curiam.   After his arrival in Japan in

The Leuven Chinese Studies, published by the Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, has just released its 40th volume, Ferdinand Verbiest, Postulata Vice-Provinciae Sinensis in Urbe proponenda: A blueprint for a renewed SJ mission in China. The book is edited by Noël Golvers.    According to the publisher, the book highlights a series of requests that Verbiest, as the China Mission’s

Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa hosted a two-day symposium on “Tracking Jesuit Ministries in India – History and Progress (Post-Restoration Period).”   Held on July 12-13, 2018, the event featured 10 scholarly papers examining Jesuit ministries after 1814. Scholars represented the fields of education, ecology, theology, aesthetics, Christian-Muslim dialogue, subaltern development, spirituality, and

Yale University Press has published Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits, 1554-1791 by Dale K. Van Kley, professor emeritus at the Ohio State University.   Van Kley argues how “Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress” the Society of Jesus, “a society instituted by the papacy.”