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Natural History in the Jesuit Missions
2018This 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 ...
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A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan
2023In 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
2021In 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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