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Variation on a Theme: Demographic Patterns of Nuestra Señora de los Reyes Yapeyú Mission (Corrientes, Argentina)

open access: yesFronteras de la Historia, 2022
Several generations of scholars have accepted general assumptions about indigenous demographic patterns in the Americas after 1492 suggested by scholars such as Alfred Crosby and Henry Dobyns.
Robert Howard Jackson
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Almas em busca da salvação: sensibilidade barroca no discurso jesuítico (século XVII)

open access: yesRevista 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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Musing on the sources Contemptus mundi in Japan 1596

open access: yesCahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines, 2022
The Tenshō Mission organized by Alessandro Valignano S. J. brought one or several books written by Luis de Granada translated into Japanese to Granada when they visited this Dominican friar in Lisbon. The purpose of my article is to examine, by comparing
Okamoto-MacPhail, Aiko
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The Enemy, the Demon, Lucifer: Jesuits Coming to Terms with the Devil in Sixteenth-Century Japan

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022
This article focuses on how Jesuit missionaries to Japan during the sixteenth century recurred on notions of the devil as their primary enemy. They took these notions from contemporary late medieval and early modern Catholic demonology and configured ...
Tobias Winnerling
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Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in the Lake Ṭana Region: Review of the Work in Progress

open access: yesAethiopica, 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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Micromorphological Analysis of Archaeological Abenaki Pit Features from the Fort Odanak Site (CaFe-7), Québec, Canada

open access: yesGeosciences, 2022
Built in the early 18th century on the banks of the Saint-François River (Quebec, QC, Canada), the fortified Jesuit mission of Saint-François-de-Sales was an important Abenaki centre during the colonial period.
Sarah Robert, Najat Bhiry, Allison Bain
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Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557–1632

open access: yesAethiopica, 2018
This dissertation examines the relationship between royally-sponsored Roman Catholic and Ethiopian Orthodox art and architecture during the 1557 to 1632 Jesuit Ethiopian mission. The first part of the dissertation examines key religious and secular sites,
Kristen Windmuller-Luna
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The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia (16th–17th Centuries): an Analytical Bibliography

open access: yesAethiopica, 2012
The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia was an episode of great importance in the history of Ethiopia and the Portuguese expansion. However, despite the number of studies dedicated to it a bibliography was still missing.
Leonardo Cohen Shabot   +1 more
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Hernando de Villafañe's missionary cicle (1560-1634) and his relevance in the Society of Jesus' Mexican Province

open access: yesAntiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2016
Hernando de Villafañe (León, Castilla la Vieja, 1560 - Sinaloa, 1634) was one of the Society of Jesus' main actors in the early years of the order's mission in Sina-loa (New Vizcaya).
Gilberto López Castillo
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