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Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580-1789 : ‘The World is our House?’
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ISBN: 9789004362659 9004362657 9789004362666 9004362665 Year: 2019 Volume: 18 Publisher: Leiden, Boston : BRILL,

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Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580-1789: ‘The World is our House’? offers new perspectives on the English Mission of the Society of Jesus. It brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to explore the Mission’s role and wider impact within the Society, as well as early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent movements within the field to decentralise the Catholic Reformation, the volume seeks to change perceptions of the English Mission as peripheral, bringing the archipelagic experience of Jesuits working in the British Isles in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the Society of Jesus.


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Huit jésuites à la rencontre des religions de l'Asie : itinéraires : XVIe-XXIe siècles
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ISBN: 9782872993666 2872993665 Year: 2019 Publisher: Namur Paris Lessius

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Ce volume brosse les portraits de huit jésuites qui se sont employés dans plusieurs pays asiatiques.00Il montre aussi ce que ces huit jésuites doivent à l?esprit de leur temps. Mais éclatent aussi l?originalité et l?audace avec lesquelles ils se sont frayé des voies nouvelles. Il apparaîtra enfin combien les ressources offertes par la Compagnie leur ont permis d?ouvrir des perspectives novatrices.


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The years of Jesuit suppression, 1773-1814: survival, setbacks, and transformation
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ISBN: 9004423370 9004421084 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brill

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"The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus's papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore's narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology-a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit-and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society's restoration in the broader context of world history".


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Jesuits and the natural sciences in modern times, 1814-2014
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ISBN: 9004394907 9004394893 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brill

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After their restoration of 1814, the Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology. This narrative provides a history of the Jesuit institutions in which these discoveries were made, many of which were established in countries that previously had no scientific institutions whatsoever, thus generating a scientific and educational legacy that endures to this day. The article also focuses on the teaching and research that took place at Jesuit universities and secondary schools, as well as the order’s creation of a worldwide network of seventy-four astronomical and geophysical observatories where particularly important contributions were made to the fields of terrestrial magnetism, microseisms, tropical hurricanes, and botany.


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Jesuit philosophy on the eve of modernity
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ISSN: 22143289 ISBN: 9789004394391 9004394397 9789004394414 9004394419 Year: 2019 Volume: 20 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity , edited by Cristiano Casalini, is the first comprehensive volume to trace the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus (1540–c.1640). Filling a gap in the history of philosophy, the volume seeks to identify and examine the limits of the “distinctiveness” of Jesuit philosophers during an age of dramatic turbulence in Western thought. The eighteen contributions by some of the leading specialists in various fields are divided into four sections, which guide the reader through cultural milieus, thematic issues, and intellectual biographies to show the impact of Jesuit philosophy on early modern thought.


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Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
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ISBN: 9004416838 9004361359 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brill

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The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.


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Jésuites et sciences humaines (années 1960)

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Il y a eu un moment « sciences humaines » dans la France des années 1960, marqué par la publication des œuvres de Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan ou Claude Lévi-Strauss. Fondées sur la mise en évidence de systèmes de signes qui s’imposent au sujet sans qu’il en ait conscience, ces œuvres constituent un défi de taille pour les croyants en l’existence d’un Dieu personnel accessible à la raison et à la liberté humaines. Peu nombreux ont été les intellectuels chrétiens capables de relever un tel défi. Parmi eux, en avant-garde comme souvent dans le passé, plusieurs jésuites, malgré la crise que leur ordre connaît en France au lendemain du concile Vatican II. Alors que la réception de la vision cosmique de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, mort en 1955, connaît son développement maximal, Paul Beauchamp, Louis Beirnaert, Michel de Certeau, Joseph Moingt, Georges Morel, Éric de Rosny ou François Roustang prennent au sérieux le défi, à leurs risques et périls, et tentent d’y répondre, moins par souci apologétique que par volonté de faire entendre une voix chrétienne dans un concert qui lui est largement étranger. Sur cette saison de l’intelligence croyante confrontée au paradigme structural, ce livre réunit quelques pierres d’attente pour une synthèse à venir. Il participe d’une histoire du catholicisme français contemporain, et plus particulièrement de la Compagnie de Jésus en son sein. Il devrait intéresser aussi les curieux d’une histoire intellectuelle de la France des années 1960.


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Changing hearts : performing Jesuit emotions between Europe, Asia, and The Americas
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ISBN: 9789004329331 9004329331 9789004385191 9004385193 Year: 2019 Volume: 15 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to "change hearts"-that is, convert or reform-both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and `accommodated' to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.


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Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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ISSN: 18738974 ISBN: 9789004366145 9004366148 9789004390546 9004390545 Year: 2019 Volume: 31 Publisher: Leiden, Boston : BRILL,

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In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and particularly the mobilization of the mission militia and the movement of soldiers on campaign had demographic consequences for the populations of the missions such as the spread of contagion. This study documents regional conflict in the Rio de la Plata, the militarization of the Jesuit missions, and the demographic consequences of conflict for the mission populations.

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