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The Jesuit English Mission [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter concentrates on the English Jesuit Mission following its inception in 1580. It opens by examining Jesuit navigation of the issues surrounding religion and politics, arguing that it was impossible for the Jesuits’ activities not to have been considered political due to the entwining of the temporal and the spiritual in England.
James E. Kelly, Kelly, James E.
openaire   +4 more sources

All or Nothing: Polemicizing God and the Buddhist Void in the Jesuit Mission to East Asia

open access: yesReligions
The Jesuit mission to East Asia highlights the polemical difficulties inherent in the process of introducing, translating, and creating a new theological paradigm within a host culture without a common religious worldview.
James Matthew Baskind
doaj   +3 more sources

To Walk with Slaves: Jesuit Contexts and the Atlantic World in the Cartagena Mission to Enslaved Africans, 1605–1654

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The Jesuit mission to enslaved Africans founded in 1605 in Cartagena de las Indias is amongst the most extraordinary religious developments of early colonial Latin America. By the time Alonso de Sandoval, S.J. and Pedro Claver, S.J.
José L. Santana
doaj   +3 more sources

Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and ...

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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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