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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2019 The recent historiography of student history invites us to re-read “the Genealogy of the ratio Studiorum” of 1599 (Dominique Julia) in order to highlight the work of the first two generations of Jesuit teachers concerning the typical profile of the ...
Véronique Castagnet‑Lars
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, THE “SIX PROPOSITIONS,” AND THE HOLY OFFICE
Zygon, 2019 Between 1924 and 1937, the Jesuit Curia in Rome repeatedly placed restrictions on what Jesuit priest‐paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was allowed to write on those aspects of human origins that, in the view of the Curia, had theological as well
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Astronomical Chronology, the Jesuit China Mission, and Enlightenment History
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2023 This article examines the use of astronomical chronology in Jesuit and secular works of history between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. It suggests that the highly visible adoption of astronomical records in historical scholarship in Enlightenment Europe by Nicolas Fréret and Voltaire was entangled with debates about Chinese ...
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Aethiopica, 2013 In this paper I analyse the reasons that lead Portugual to send a Jesuit Patriarch to Ethiopia. Such a mission represented a radical break from the tolerant attitude the Lusitans had been showing vis à vis this African Church; the embassies that for ...
Andreu Martínez D'Alòs-Moner
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in the Lake Ṭana Region: Review of the Work in Progress
Aethiopica, 2013 The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia, which extended from 1557 to 1632, produced important architectonic constructions.
Víctor M. Fernández +3 more
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2019 The drawings made by Ignacio Tirsch (1733-1781) are part of the Jesuit missionary work in the northern New Spain. Today we can find some of these drawings illustrating specialized books or advertising campaigns on Baja California. However, some questions
Angélica Morales Sarabia
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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