Results 1 to 10 of about 319 (159)
This article treats the familiar triad “Gold, God, and Glory” as a heuristic to track how commercial, missionary, and reputational aims were configured within overlapping jurisdictions of the Portuguese world.
Boyu Fang
exaly +3 more sources
The Guenoa Minuanos and the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní
The Jesuit province of Paraquaria included missions established within both sedentary and non-sedentary indigenous groups. This study examines the Guenoa Minuanos and their interactions with the Jesuit mission San Francisco de Borja.
Robert Howard Jackson
doaj +3 more sources
This article examines the different meanings carried by the term poraka in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay. By crossing historical sources and contemporary ethnological works, we show that it designates both the hunting and the sharing of game.
Joaquín Ruiz Zubizarreta +1 more
doaj +1 more source
The church service of Fr. Edmund A. Walsh SJ in diplomatic affairs in Russia and Mexico (1922–1923, 1929) [PDF]
The article is a comparative analysis of the diplomatic activity Fr. Edmund A. Walsh, the American Jesuit and founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
M. C. Dommarco
doaj +1 more source
O presente artigo configura-se como a culminância dum longo processo investigativo acerca da história colonial da Paraíba, especificamente acerca das missões religiosas e fazendas jesuítas que se estabeleceram no território da Parahyba do Norte.
Juvandi de Souza Santos +1 more
doaj +1 more source
The Jesuits and the misdirections of a mission
Abstract The paper investigates a crisis linked to the action of the Jesuits from the Province of Brazil, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This crisis took place among the members of the Society and is exposed, in this manuscript, through criticisms directed to the superiors and in the complaints of deviant behaviors, made by the priests ...
openaire +1 more source
The Canadian Jesuit Missions have announced the donation of Rs. 10,000 for relief work among Bengali refugees in Assam, India.
Refuge Editor
doaj +1 more source
Paraguay Natural Ilustrado by José Sánchez Labrador SJ: Between the American Experience and Exile
This paper analyzes the work Paraguay Natural Ilustrado and discusses the impact that the American experience and the later exile in Italy had in the trajectory and intellectual production of its author, Jesuit priest José Sánchez Labrador.
Fleck Eliane Cristina Deckmann
doaj +1 more source
The population and vital rates of the other Jesuit missions of the Province of Paraguay and Moxos
This is the third and last of a series of articles that present information on the population and vital rates of the Jesuit missions in the Paraguay province reconstructed from cen-suses.
Robert H. Jackson
doaj +1 more source
Documentos escritos por indígenas: as duas mensagens de Hilário Yrama (1757)
Indians’ conquest of literacy was the result of the ways of evangelization during colonial times. Indigenous participation in this process allows understanding the rapid diffusion and acceptation of writing technologies.
Eduardo S. Neumann
doaj +1 more source

