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Archaeology’s Offerings to Jesuit History [PDF]

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2021
Abstract The contributions to the thematic issue of this journal address archaeological approaches to Jesuit missionizing in three contexts in the colonial Americas: substantial missions that also served as plantations, missions lacking full-time clergy, and short-term outposts on the edges of colonial empires. By relying on evidence from the landscape,
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Assessing Jesuit Intellectual Apostolate in Modern Shanghai (1847–1949)

Religions, 2021
The various endeavors led by Jesuits under the auspices to the Plan Scientifique du Kiang-Nan (Scientific Plan for the Jiangnan region) constituted a defining moment in the history of their mission in modern China. The Jesuits aimed to found a scientific
Wei Mo
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La consideración de las fuentes indígenas en la Historia natural y moral de las Indias de José de Acosta

Confluenze, 2020
The Jesuit José de Acosta, in his Historia natural y moral de las Indias, analyzes the question of the verisimilitude of indigenous history. If on the one hand Acosta uses the news collected by other chroniclers, on the other hand he considers the ...
Luigi Guarnieri Caló Carducci
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Stanisław Bednarski SJ and prof. Stanisław Kot: pupil and master (in Polish)

Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2018
On September 15th 1922, a young Jesuit, Father S. Bednarski, enrolled at the Jagiellonian University, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, with specialization in modern history, history of culture and history of art.
Stanisław Cieślak SJ
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Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa [PDF]

, 2018
The essays in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offer a critical reflection on the often more competitive than cordial relationships between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Africa.

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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism

Aethiopica, 2023
The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia represented one of the most serious challenges of Ethiopian Christianity during the early modern times. The mission had two phases.
Solomon Gebreyes Beyene
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From Piotr Skarga (1536–1612) to Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), or from triumphalism to participation

Litteraria Copernicana, 2015
Jesuits are known for their fidelity toward papacy. This article suggest regarding the history of this religious order through the life and the activities of two of its members.
Stanisław Obirek
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Renate Wagner-Rieger and Baroque Research in Croatia

Peristil, 2022
The research of Renate Wagner-Rieger has influenced the whole Central European area, as well the development of art history in Croatia, especially architectural research.
Dubravka Botica
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History of History of Physics [PDF]

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2016
The twelve decades of modern academic history of physics have provided enough material for the study of the history of history of physics, the focus of which is the development of the opinions and methods of historians of physics.
Stanislav Južnič
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La mission d’Arménie des jésuites et la production des savoirs à la fin de l’Empire ottoman (1881-1914)

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2022
Jesuit members of the mission of Armenia established in 1881 at the initiative of pope Leo XIII were prolific scientific authors. Their apostolic work across central Anatolia, from Marsovan/Merzifon to Adana, provided them with the occasion to become ...
Philippe Bourmaud
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