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Leyendo los paisajes en los archivos históricos: los jesuitas y los pueblos de indios en la producción del espacio en el noroeste de Nueva España

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2019
This article brings together early modern science, the Jesuit evangelical and educational missions in the Americas, and environmental history centered in the socially produced spaces of the mission districts of northwestern New Spain.
Cynthia Radding
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Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether religious or secular, raises difficult questions about ends and means. What warrant do missionaries have for inducing others to act and
Winston, Kenneth I., Bane, Mary Jo
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

Journal 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
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“What the great Alexander and the famous Julius Caesar wanted so much to see”. A commemoration of the fourth centenary of the Blue Nile Sources discovery by the Spanish Jesuit Pedro Páez Xaramillo (April 21th, 1618)

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2019
On April 21, 1618 Pedro Páez visited the small spring where the waters of the Blue Nile rise before passing through Lake Tana. The site had been seen before by the military leader of the group of Ethio-Portuguese descendants of the Portuguese soldiers ...
Víctor M. Fernández
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern 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
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Jesuit Missionaries and the Multifaceted North America: Past and Present in the Italian Magazine Le Missioni della Compagnia di Gesù (1915-19)

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The article aims to define the image of North America that Jesuits missionaries conveyed through the fortnightly Le Missioni della Compagnia di Gesù, that of a sui generis missionary field (compared to Asia and Africa), whose ethnic and socio-cultural
Menti, Daiana
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The 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
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Demographic patterns of sedentary and non-sedentary populations: Jesuit missions in lowland South America and Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda Region of Mexico

Memoria Americana, 2017
This article discusses demographic patterns on Jesuit missions in lowlandSouth America (Chiquitos, Guaraní) and the Sierra Gorda region of Mexico, including the effects of epidemics of highly contagious diseases such as smallpox and measles.
Robert H. Jackson
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The Holy West and the Land of Perpetual Snow

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The paper examines the origins and development of Jesuit missionary efforts in the Rocky Mountains’ territories (1841) and in Alaska (1886) highlighting the coordinating role of the Turin Province and some aspects of the contribution of female ...
Menelao, Francesca
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