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“Children of the jesuits” or children of their past?
This paper argues that pre-evangelisation indigenous survival techniques noted in both contemporaneous Jesuit sources and in subsequent 20th- and 21st-century anthropological research continued to be employed in the mission to the Chiquitos.
Kate Ford
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The Jesuit English Mission [PDF]
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.
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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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The Jesuit Mission in Japan and History of Rhetoric and Its Languages
This article addresses the works of the Jesuit Mission Press dedicated to rhetorical persuasion. The Society tried to transplant Christian expressions of faith inJapanin Latin and in European Christian paintings, and it met with the indigenous convention
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
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Connections between Japan and European Catholic world (late 16th - early 17th centuries)
The article describes the religious mission which was the first attempt to convey to Europeans the truth about Japan and to let the Japanese learn about the Christian world.
Y. L. Kuzhel
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The Yaqui Rebellion of 1740: Prelude to Jesuit expulsion from New Spain
This article analyses the ranges of an indigenous rebellion in the Jesuit mission context of Northwest New Spain. Supported by different indigenous nations, the Yaqui rebellion of 1740 was caused by the labor pressures imposed by civil authorities and ...
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
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The Jesuit Mission in Japan was characterized by the establishment of the first painting Seminario in the Far East supervised by the Italian Jesuit Painter Giovanni Cola, who arrived in Nagasaki from Rome in 1583.
Riccardo Montanari
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Diplomatic devices : the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan [PDF]
The present paper explores the social lives of European timepieces as a particular set of objects in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan, when the archipelago first encountered the “Southern Barbarians” from Portugal and Spain.
Koch, Angelika
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Once the domain of government agencies and non-profit organizations, a social enterprise integrates social benefits such as employment and sustainability into a for-profit firm’s mission. The social enterprise (SE) bottom line includes both economic and
Eduardo Barrientos, Anne H. Reilly
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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