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Appointment of New JCTR Executive Director

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The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rev. Dr. Daniel Mwamba Mutale, S.J. as its new Executive Director. A distinguished economist and Jesuit priest, Fr. Mutale holds a Ph.D.
Simpasa, Andrew, S.J.
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Natural History in the Jesuit Missions

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter considers Jesuit natural history in the period of the Old Society (from Renaissance to Enlightenment). Five topics have been selected for discussion: a general, formal characterization of Jesuit writing on nature, with emphasis on works produced in the missions; the symbolic and material exchanges presupposed by the practice of missionary ...
Miguel de Asúa
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Listening to Our History Inculturation and Jesuit Slaveholding

open access: yesStudies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, 2013
Beckett, Edward F.
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Jesuit History, Theatre, and Spirituality

Religion and the Arts, 2019
Abstract The 2014 staging and publication of Jonathan Moore’s play Inigo offers a unique commentary on the relationship between acting and spirituality within the Society of Jesus, the official name of the Jesuit Order. Through a close analysis of Moore’s play, this article contends that Jesuit spirituality draws on performative skills to inspire ...
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Recent Studies in Jesuit History

Journal of Religious History, 2007
The past two decades have witnessed an important shift in the historiography of the Society of Jesus. The older style of Jesuit history, flavoured with confessional polemics, and so often dependent on the work of Jesuit scholars isolated from the more secularly oriented academic community, had already ceased to dominate when John O'Malley's magisterial
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A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan

2023
In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer faithful in new territories. The first missionaries to arrive in Japan were the Jesuits who were forced to adopt a different type of evangelization, with a bottom-up rather than a top-down approach.
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The Jesuits in the History of Latin American Psychology

2021
In this chapter we make a historical review of the impact of Jesuit ideas and their contribution to the development of psychological knowledge in Latin America. It reviews the ways in which the processes of building the knowledge of indigenous peoples were configured in different countries of the region.
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Ignatius of Loyola and a New Direction for the History of the Jesuits

The Catholic Historical Review, 1996
Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint. By W W Meissner, S.J. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1992. Pp. xxx, 480. $45.00 clothbound; $ 18.00 paperback.) In the period since the 1992 publication of W. W. Meissner's Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint, two significant events in the annals of the Society of Jesus have occurred, the ...
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French and Canadian Jesuit History Writing

2019
This chapter investigates the links between the “old” and the “new” Society, as forged through the writing of history. More specifically, it focuses on the historiographical methods that were theorized and put into practice by French and Canadian Jesuit historians, active between the 1830s and the 1920s, in studying the history of their seventeenth ...
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