News in Jesuit Studies

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July 2018: Discounted Bundle on Books on Jesuit Governance

Jesuit Sources announces a discounted bundle of 10 books on the governance of the Society of Jesus. The collection includes every decree from every General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, a copy of the Constitutions, and scholarly commentary and analysis on Jesuit governance.

 

Supplies are limited. The 10 books are offered for only $50, plus shipping–a savings for nearly 80%.

 

Titles include:

 

  • An Introductory Commentary on the Constitutions – Paperback
  • The Superior General – Paperback
  • Union among Jesuits – Paperback
  • “Our Way of Proceeding”: To Make the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complementary Norms Our Own
  • From Inspiration to Invention: Rhetoric in the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
  • The Formula of the Institute: Notes for a Commentary – Paperback
  • Jesuit Life & Mission Today: The Decrees and Accompanying Documents of the 31st–35th General Congregations of the Society of Jesus – Paperback
  • Jesuit Life & Mission Today: The Decrees and Accompanying Documents of the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus – Paperback
  • The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complementary Norms: A Complete English Translation of Official Latin Texts – Paperback
  • For Matters of Greater Moment:The First Thirty Jesuit General Congregations: A Brief History and a Translation of the Decrees

 

More information and ordering details are available at http://jesuitsources.bc.edu/governance-of-the-society-of-jesus-10-book-bundle/.
June 2018: New Issue Available of the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute

The second issue of the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is now available. (See an earlier news story about the launch of this bi-annual publication.)

 

The contents of this issue include:

Leader:
“Transforming Homo Economicus” – Stephan Rothlin

Society:
“Laudato Si’: Mobilising Christian Faith and Practice for Environmental Responsibility” – Dennis Patrick McCann
“Science and Laudato Si’ on the Paradigm Shift towards Sustainable Development” – Franz Gassner
“Karaniwang Tao: Filipino Response to Pope Francis’ Challenge on Climate Change” – Mark Pufpaff
“Progressive Business as Social Business Innovation” – Laszlo Zsolnai and Eleanor O’Higgins
“The Ethical Case against Sweatshops in Guangdong Province: Resources from John Rawls’ Theory of Justice” – Liu Guangming
“Angel or Demon? The Ethics of Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Firms” – Helen Xu

Religion:
“Doing Business with Moral Leadership and Faith” – Mike Thompson interviews Johnny Hon
“Art, Culture, and Resonance in the Jesuit Mission in China” – David Francis Urrows

World:
“Developing Responsible Leaders in China: Beyond Compliance Toward Becoming a “Force For Good”?” – Henri-Claude de Bettignies

Events and Publications

 

More information about the Macau Ricci Institute is available online.

 
June 2018: New History of the International Suppression of the Society of Jesus

Yale University Press has published Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits, 1554-1791 by Dale K. Van Kley, professor emeritus at the Ohio State University.

 

Van Kley argues how “Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress” the Society of Jesus, “a society instituted by the papacy.” According to the publisher, Van Kley’s book is “the only single volume in English to make coherent sense of the series of expulsions that add up to what was arguably the most important religious event in Europe of the time, resulting in the secularization of tens of thousands of Jesuits.”

 

Van Kley has written previously on the suppression of the Society of Jesus, including

  • “Plots and Rumors of Plots: The Role of Conspiracy in the International Campaign against the Society of Jesus, 1758–1768,” in The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequence (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015).
  • “Jansenism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits,” in Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006).

 

More information about this new book is available at: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228465/reform-catholicism-and-international-suppression-jesuits-1554-1791