News in Jesuit Studies
The following are notices of significant events related to the field of Jesuit Studies.
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The Jesuitica Project — a collaborative initiative from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Jesuit Region of European Low Countries, the former provinces of the Netherlands and North Belgium (Flanders) — has launched a new version of its website: https://www.jesuitica.be/
The mission of the Jesuitica Project is to stimulate research into the history and spirituality of the Jesuits by making the rich collections of Jesuit books in the Maurits Sabbe Library accessible and by hosting www.jesuitica.be as a virtual portal with digital tools for the research community. The Maurits Sabbe Library is home to an impressive Jesuitica book collection of almost 100,000 books. Of these, some 20,000 books printed before 1840 and more than 40,000 from the later 19th and 20th century have been properly described and catalogued. The Jesuitica Project is also working to digitize many of these titles.
To subscribe to the project’s weekly email list — with announcements of new records and other news — please visits: https://jesuitica.be/newsletter-sign-up/.
In 2019, the Jesuitica Project joined with the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to found the Jesuit Online Bibliography.
Additional past volumes of the Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (AHSI) are now available in open access.
For more than 85 years, AHSI, a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, has published research articles on the history of the Society of Jesus along with book reviews, research notes, accounts of “living history,” and an annual bibliography. The most recent research articles are available at the AHSI website.
The AHSI staff, in collaboration with the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, is digitizing entire past volumes of the journal. These past volumes are available in open access. The AHSI website provides this listing of the digitized volumes:
- vol I – VIII (years 1932-39) at Hathi Trust;
- vol. IX – XVIII (years 1940-49) at Internet Archive
- vol. XIX – XXIX (years 1950-60) at Internet Archive
- vol. XXX – IXL (years 1961-70) at Internet Archive
- vol. LIX – LXIV (years 1990-1995) at Internet Archive
- vol. LXV – LXXXI (years 1996-2012) at Hathi Trust (1996-2000; 2003-2006) and partly on Internet Archive (2001-2002; 2007-2013)
- General Index vol. LI – LX at Internet Archive
Linda A. Newson has edited a new collection of essays entitled Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, published by the University of London Press and the Institute of Latin American Studies. Thirteen scholars contribute to essays examining “the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture,” from the diverse activities by the Jesuits themselves to the diverse scholarly approaches to those activities and their impact.
Newsom is the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London and emeritus professor of geography at King’s College London. The volume is available in open access through JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwrm4h1).
Below appear a description of the volume and an annotated table of contents, with direct links to each chapter as well as links to the citations in the Jesuit Online Bibliography to locate similar scholarship. The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. More information about the database and about how to add citations can be found at jesuitonlinebibliography.com.
Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America
Ed., Linda A. Newson
London: University of London Press; Institute of Latin American Studies, 2020
Introduction (pp. 1-8)
By: Linda A. Newson
I. Jesuit art, architecture and material culture
1. The Jesuits and Chinese style in the arts of colonial Brazil (1719–79) (pp. 11-40)
By: Gauvin Alexander Bailey
2. Two ‘ways of proceeding’: damage limitation in the Mission to the Chiquitos (pp. 41-68)
By: Kate Ford
3. The materiality of cultural encounters in the Treinta Pueblos de las Misiones (pp. 69-88)
By: Clarissa Sanfelice Rahmeier
II. Jesuit mission life
4. A patriarchal society in the Rio de la Plata: adultery and the double standard at Mission Jesús de Tavarangue, 1782 (pp. 91-110)
By: Barbara Ganson
5. Music in the Jesuit missions of the Upper Marañón (pp. 111-126)
By: Leonardo Waisman
6. Beyond linguistic description: territorialisation. Guarani language in the missions of Paraguay (17th–19th centuries) (pp. 127-146)
By: Capucine Boidin
III. Jesuit approaches to evangelisation
7. Administration and native perceptions of baptism at the Jesuit peripheries of Spanish America (16th–18th centuries) (pp. 149-170)
By: Oriol Ambrogio
8. ‘Con intençión de haçerlos Christianos y con voluntad de instruirlos’: spiritual education among American Indians in Anello Oliva’s Historia del Reino y Provincias del Perú (pp. 171-188)
By: Virginia Ghelarducci
9. Translation and prolepsis: the Jesuit origins of a Tupi Christian doctrine (pp. 189-206)
By: Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Caroline Egan
IV. Jesuit agriculture, medicine and science
10. Jesuits and mules in colonial Latin America: innovators or managers? (pp. 209-228)
By: William G. Clarence-Smith
11. Jesuit recipes, Jesuit receipts: the Society of Jesus and the introduction of exotic materia medica into Europe (pp. 229-254)
By: Samir Boumediene
12. The Jesuits and the exact sciences in Argentina (pp. 255-284)
By: Eduardo L. Ortiz