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Financing Jesuit Missions

2017
This chapter outlines the less studied finances of Jesuit overseas missions in the early modern period, drawing from incomplete sources for Portuguese Asia and more substantial primary sources (and secondary literature) for Spanish America. It discusses several conceptual points: How did Jesuits and outsiders reflect on their wealth?
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Jesuit Missions in Baja California

The Americas, 1967
Whatever history may record about his personal life, there is no denying that Pope Alexander VI was among the most efficient and far-sighted of the Church’s long list of vicars. Perhaps nowhere is this fact more obvious than in the pontiff’s concern and zeal for the missions.
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Reflections on Tourism in Jesuitic-Guarani Missions

2021
The thirty Jesuit-Guarani missions, established in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, formed a rich territorial system that left a significant cultural legacy for the platinum region, shared by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. From the point of view of the built heritage, several of the settlements were destroyed and under some of them ...
Ana Lúcia Goelzer Meira, Luisa Durán
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The First Jesuit Mission

2006
Abstract It was on the occasion of the first major mission to Egypt that the relatively young Society of Jesus started to play a leading part in the papal policy towards the Copts. Approved by the papacy in 1540, it was a society of clerks regular who took vows of poverty and chastity.
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Natural History in the Jesuit Missions

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 ...
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Jesuit Missions

2015
Hamish Scott   +2 more
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