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The Jesuit Mission to New France [PDF]

, 2010
A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions based on a broader international ...
Abé, Takao
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The Jesuits in Ethiopia: Missionary Methods and Local Responses to Catholicism (1555–1632)

Aethiopica, 2012
Dissertation ...
Leonardo Cohen Shabot
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Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2022
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history
Francesco Borghesi, Yixu Lü, Daniel Canaris, Thierry Meynard   +3 more
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Actual Problems of National Historiography of Cultural and Enlightening Activity of Jesuits in Belarus

Наука и техника, 2004
Cultural and enlightening activity of Jesuits in Belarus has been studied as a rule by Belarussian scientists from the point of view of forced catholic spreading ideology.
T. I. Nareiko
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The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century

Modern Languages Open, 2014
My paper will examine figure of the Jesuit in nineteenth-century literature, a theme which evolves from my thesis on the image of Catholicism. The nineteenth century is of special interest in conjunction with the study of Russian attitudes to religion ...
Elizabeth Harrison
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Almas em busca da salvação: sensibilidade barroca no discurso jesuítico (século XVII)

Revista Brasileira de História, 2004
Para uma compreensão das reduções jesuítico-guaranis na perspectiva de uma história da sensibilidade, procedeu-se a uma releitura das Cartas Ânuas da Província Jesuítica do Paraguai, referentes ao período de 1609 a 1675.
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck
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Torino, 1593: Motivi dell’opposizione universitaria ai gesuiti nel contesto degli antagonismi europei del tempo - Turin 1593: the Reasons for Opposing the Jesuits against the Background of the Contemporary European Antagonisms

Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2014
This paper deals with an unpublished Renaissance document preserved in the Archives of Turin, relevant to the history of the local university. It is an anonymous report, written in 1593, relative to the reasons for opposing the Jesuits’ attempt to obtain
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
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The History of Jesuit Libraries in Croatia

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study is to provide a historical overview of the Jesuit libraries in Croatia from their foundation to the present. The first known libraries were at Jesuit high schools, called “colleges,” established during the seventeenth century.
Marica Šapro-Ficović, Željko Vegh
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Xu Zongze’s Translation Theories and Practices in the Jesuit Revue Catholique

Religions
This paper examines the translation theories and practices of Xu Zongze 徐宗澤 (1886–1947), a key figure in the Jesuit community of the Zi-ka-wei compound 徐家匯.
Wei Mo
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Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Paleontological data provide information on natural environments prior to human influence, which are useful for tracking changes in ecosystem functioning through time. During the Late Pleistocene, about 10% of terrestrial mammalian species were extinct in South America.
Thayara S. Carrasco, Catalina Pimiento, Tiago B. Quental, Pedro L. Godoy   +3 more
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