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Passionate uncertainty: inside the American Jesuits
, 2002 Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have ...
McDonough, Peter 1939- +3 more
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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The Society of Jesus in England, 1623-1688 : an institutional study [PDF]
From the Society of Jesus' first appearance in England in 1580, various political treatises, literary works, and theological discourses have attributed legendary plots, exploits, and malice to its members.
McCoog, Thomas M.
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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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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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RUDN Journal of World History, 2015 The article is devoted to one and the most interesting and controversial Catholic monastic orders - Society of Jesus. This article will attempt to prove that contrary to popular belief, the ultimate goal of the Jesuits in Latin America in the XVII-XVIII ...
E S Galibina-Lebedeva
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Brésil(s)Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), a plant belonging to the Euphorbiaceae family and native to the southwestern Amazon basin, has become one of the main staple foods of the region and beyond, along with its many derivatives, especially farinha [flour ...
Karl Heinz Arenz +1 more
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The use of music by the Jesuits in the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil
, 1999 Paulista State Univ, Inst Arts, São Paulo, BrazilPaulista State Univ, Inst Arts, São Paulo ...
Castagna, P.
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Anthropologica, 2007 El artículo presenta una transcripción paleográfica de dos documentos originales del Archivum Romanum Societat Jesu (ARSI), en Roma, referentes a la defunción del Padre Jesuita Pablo Joseph de Arriaga de la provincia del Perú. El primer documento ha sido
Fabiola Chávez
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