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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
wiley   +1 more source

JCTR Bulletin 1st Quarter 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is the first issue of JCTR Bulletin this year. This year, 2018 marks 30 years of the JCTR’s dedicated service to promoting the fullness of human life for all, as the Centre was established in 1988. Beginning with Fr.
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection
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A brief introduction to two unpublished notes about the jesuit mission press in late sixteenth-century Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article presents a few unpublished notes, included in two different Jesuit letters, which provide new details about the Jesuit Mission Press in late sixteenth-century Japan.
Jaime González-Bolado   +1 more
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La raza y la definición de la identidad del “Indio” en las fronteras de la América española Colonial

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2007
The following study examines the process of the creation of indio identity and status, at least on paper, that defined the role of the natives in colonial society, on three distinct mission frontiers on the fringes of Spanish America.
Robert H. Jackson
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The Guaycuros, Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, and José Gálvez: The failure of Spanish policy in Baja California

open access: yesMemoria Americana, 2005
Between 1697 and 1767/1768, the Jesuits administrated missions in the arid Baja California Peninsula. Because of the limited potential for agriculture on the Peninsula, the Jesuits had to import food from neighboring provinces, and allowed a large part ...
Robert H. Jackson
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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
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
wiley   +1 more source

[USF] Together in Mission 0518

open access: yes, 2020
Campus-wide email from the University Council for Jesuit Mission inviting the community to share their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and to participate in a virtual event titled "connecting through our Zoom screens," May 22 ...
Reid, Annie; Campus-wide, Khan, Saera R.
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

(Des)clasificando la cultura escrita guaraní. Un enigmático documento trilingüe de las misiones jesuíticas del Paraguay

open access: yesCorpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2019
This article analyses an enigmatic document found at Buenos Aires National Archive. It is a small folio written on recto and verso containing text excerpts in three languages: Guarani, Spanish and Latin.
Fabián R. Vega, Guillermo Wilde
doaj   +1 more source

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