News in Jesuit Studies
The following are notices of significant events related to the field of Jesuit Studies.
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A new essay on the historiography of the Society of Jesus in Korea is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay, authored by Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch, examines how historians have treated the Jesuits’ “important influence” on Korea Catholicism despite the fact that “until the 1950s, only a handful of Jesuits ever actually set foot on the Korean peninsula.”
An Open Access resource due to the support by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, Jesuit Historiography Online presents essays by experts in their field summarizing key texts, surveying recent scholarship, and suggesting future areas of inquiry. The bibliography is also hosted Brill and is available in Open Access due to the Institute’s support.
In the current issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, historian Judith Rock examines the motivation, widespread production, and professionalism of ballets at Jesuit colleges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. “The Jesuit college ballets,” she writes, “are a rich nexus of … art, theology, philosophy, and culture.”
Rock’s essay and the entire contents of the Journal of Jesuit Studies are freely accessible due to the support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. Brill publishes the journal among its other journals in Open Access.
Rock has also published a volume on baroque dance in Paris, available through jesuitsources.com. Terpsichore at Louis-le-Grand and other titles are available for 30% off with the discount code 30JESUITPORTAL. The discount expires June 30, 2017.
A new essay on the historiography of Jesuits in post-restoration India (since 1834) is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay is authored by Savio Abreu, S.J., director of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa. Abreu begins by tracing the treatments of the suppression and restoration of the Society of Jesus in India and identifies several themes and trends in the existing historiography. Abreu suggests that a forthcoming seminar on the Jesuits in India following the restoration “gives hope that the lacuna in the field of the history of Jesuit presence in India will be filled in the near future.”
An Open Access resource due to the support by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, Jesuit Historiography Online presents essays by experts in their field summarizing key texts, surveying recent scholarship, and suggesting future areas of inquiry.