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Brill has published A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism, edited by Robert Maryks, a collection of thirteen essays on the mystical tradition of the Society of Jesus. According to Brill, this tradition is a “somewhat neglected aspect of Jesuit historiography.” Several key figures in the Jesuit mystical tradition are examined, from Baltasar Álvarez to Louis Lallemant to Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle.

In addition to an introduction by Maryks, the volume contains the following chapters:

• The Mysticism of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, by Darcy Donahue

• A Controversial Mystic: Father Baltasar Álvarez, by Manuel Ruiz Jurado, S.J.

• The Mystical Theology of Luis de la Puente, by Rady Roldán-Figueroa

• Achille Gagliardi and the Northern Mystics, by Rob Faesen, translated by John Arblaster and edited by Timothy Page

• Louis Lallemant and his Doctrine spirituelle: Myths and Facts, by Tibor Bartók, S.J.

• Mysticism as an Existential Crisis: Jean-Joseph Surin, by Moshe Sluhovsky

• Claude La Colombière (1641–82), Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (1647–90), and Devotion to the Sacred Heart, by William P. O’Brien, S.J.

• Jean-Pierre de Caussade and the Caussadian Corpus, by Wendy M. Wright

• Science as a Mystical Quest: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, by François Euvé, S.J.

• “The Witness to These Witnesses”: Henri Bremond, by François Trémolières

• Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) and Contemporary Mystical Theology, by Andrew Prevot

• Karl Rahner (1904–84) and His Mystical Theology, by Harvey D. Egan, S.J.

• Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle: Zen-Enlightenment and Christianity, by Ursula Baatz

Jesuit Sources announces the availability of e-books, with the following six titles in pdf format:

• The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, by Matteo Ricci, edited by Thierry Meynard, SJ, and translated by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kou-chen, SJ

• The Spiritual Doctrine, by Louis Lallemant and translated by Patricia M. Ranum

• The Exercise of the Christian Life, by Gaspar Loarte and translated by Charles R. Keenan

• Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540-1616: A Reader, edited by Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, SJ

• Notes on the Jesuits in China, by Hieromonk Fedosii Smorzhevskii and translated by Gregory Afinogenov

To learn more, please visit the e-book section of jesuitsources.com.

Barbara Ganson, professor of History and director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Florida Atlantic University, starts her Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies. She will remain in residence during the spring semester to work on a translation and edited volume of Peruvian Jesuit missionary Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Conquista espiritual hecha por los religiosos de la Compañía de Jesús en las provincias del Paraguay, Paraná, Uruguay y Tape (1639). Ganson became interested in the history of the Rio de la Plata as an undergraduate at the Catholic universities in Buenos Aires and Asuncion during her junior year abroad. She received her Ph.D., and M.A. degrees, respectively in History and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of an award-winning book, The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata (Stanford University Press, 2003).

To learn more about Ganson and the fellowship program, please visit the Institute’s website.