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A free webinar takes place on April 16, 2021, on the theme “Translating and Connecting Worlds: Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and Cultural Pluralism. Experiences from the Past.”
The event is organized by ISEM CNR – National Research Council in the framework of the European Project “ReIReS” (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies).
“Translating and Connecting Worlds” takes place on April 16, at 3:00 pm CET [2:00 PM LONDON\LISBON; 10:00 PM TOKYO, 8:00 AM NEW YORK\ BOSTON].
Angelo Cattaneo (CNR ISEM) has gathered the invited speakers to present on the Jesuit missions in Asia and in Perù in early modernity.
For more information and for free registration, please email: workshopreires@isem.cnr.it. All registered participants will receive the Zoom link to attend the webinar.
The online international research seminar “Translating and Connecting Worlds” aims to highlight and analyze the paramount importance of religious archives and sources connected to the activities of religious orders (in particular of the orders engaged in early modern and modern missions), for the study of several branches of modern cultural history.
“Translating and Connecting Worlds” was specifically conceived and designed in accomplishment with the general goals of ReIReS (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies) to mobilize “the widest range of expertise, sources, resources and facilities of the domain of historical religious studies, by opening up to users a plurality of both documents and sources and research tools and instruments.”
A full program appears below
“Translating and Connecting Worlds: Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and Cultural Pluralism. Experiences from the Past.”
Friday, 16 April 2021, 3:00 pm CET
Gaetano Sabatini (Director, CNR ISEM)
Welcome Note
Marcello Verga (Università degli Studi di Firenze, CNR ISEM – ReIReS WP7 Leader)
Presentation
Angelo Cattaneo (CNR ISEM)
Convenor
3:15 pm Alexandra Curvelo (IHA – NOVA FCSH, Lisbon)
The Christian Mission in Early Modern Japan through the lens of an Art Historian
3:40 pm Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Tracing Feelings on Paper: Emotions in early modern Jesuit missions in Asia
4:10 pm Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research – CONICET, Argentina)
The question of “barbarism” in the Jesuit missions, from Asia to Spanish America (16th-18th centuries)
4:30 pm Angelo Cattaneo (CNR ISEM)
Early Modern Missions and the Creation of the First Global System of Connected Languages. The case of the Portuguese Padroado
5:00 pm Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen)
Discussant
5:20 pm General discussion and conclusions
Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published a new collection of essays based from presentations first made at a conference on the restoration of the Society of Jesus. The thirty-seven essays in La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain span from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The volume is edited by Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon, and Martín Morales. The book is co-published with L’École française de Rome and in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
According to IHSI, the volume’s multilingual and multidisciplinary essays “range across a wide chronological, geographical and thematic landscape within the field of modern history, while the papal Suppression (1773) and Restoration (1814) of the worldwide Society provide the volume’s main orientation. Until recently, modern Jesuit history has received relatively limited scholarly attention. This volume aims to guide researchers in the period’s riches and situate the Society in modern historical studies more broadly.”
Of note, the volume unifies the later stages of the Old Society with the years of suppression and with those of the New Society. Therefore, the volume’s “broad frame provides a window onto the great ruptures of European history, the main events of modern Catholic history, and early globalization. While the well-known upheavals of this period come into view, the persistent continuities of these centuries also emerge, exemplified most potently by the Society’s own partial survival during the forty-one years of its papal suppression.”
Citations for all the essays in La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain now appear in the Jesuit Online Bibliography.
pp. 11–31
— Martín Morales
Première Partie: L’événment de la Suppression Dans L’historiographia de L’époque révolunionnaire
pp. 35–50
L’extinction de la Compagnie de Jésus, l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution française
— Dominique Julia
pp. 51–69
La Restauration de la Compagnie de Jésus
— Dominique Julia
pp. 71–100
La costruzione del discorso della soppressione nella “Russia gesuitica”
— Marek Inglot
pp. 101–115
Ancora il Paraguay: memoria, sopravvivenza e mito delle Riduzioni
— Fabrizio Melai
Deuxième Partie: La “Compagnie Sans Nom”
pp. 119–132
Il Paccanarismo: una Compagnia di Gesù sotto altro nome?
— Eva Fontana Castelli
pp. 133–181
— Niccolò Guasti
pp. 183–213
Mission is Possible: Italian Jesuits and Popular Missions between the Old and the New Society
— Emanuele Colombo
pp. 215–232
— Silvia Mostaccio
Troisième Partie: Les Restaurations
pp. 237–255
— Miguel Coll
pp. 257–273
L’argine e il remo. Inquisizione e gesuiti nella Restaurazione romana
— David Armando
pp. 275–290
Il risveglio dello spirito gesuitico in Svizzera durante il protettorato francese
— Paul Oberholzer
pp. 291–314
Le rétablissement de la Compagnie de Jésus vu par les diplomates français
— Jean-Marc Ticchi
pp. 315–325
— Alain Cantillon
pp. 327–343
— Marina Caffiero
pp. 343–349
— Fernanda Santos and José Eduardo Franco
pp. 351–372
— Fernanda Santos and José Eduardo Franco
Quatrième Partie: La Question Littéraire
pp. 377–394
La Compañía restaurada en México. Los emblemas del Colegio de San Ildefonso
— Manuel Revuelta González
pp. 395–400
Le théâtre jésuite à l’époque de la Restauration
— Dominique Julia
pp. 401–413
Reprendre une pratique théâtrale dans la Compagnie de Jésus rétablie
— Anne-Sophie Gallo
pp. 415–428
— Frédéric Gugelot
pp. 433–438
La Compañía de Jesús en la construcción nacional: cuestiones hispanoamericanas (siglo XIX)
— Elisa Cárdenas Ayala
pp. 439–457
Las misiones jesuitas en el siglo XIX. Historiografía de un fantasma
— Guillermo Wilde
pp. 459–472
— Fernando Torres Londoño
pp. 473–481
Memoria e historiografía en Chile entre la “antigua” y “nueva” Compañía de Jesús
— Jaime Valenzuela Márquez
pp. 483–499
— Giovanni Pizzorusso
Cinquième Partie: Les Restaurations Américanies
pp. 503–519
La continuità raccontata: la nuova missione del Madurai
— Sabina Pavone
pp. 513–520
Les missions jésuites contemporaines en Afrique et à Madagascar
— Claude Prudhomme
Septième Partie: Nouvelle et Ancienne Compagnie dans le Long XIXe Siècle
1. L’historiographie de la Compagnie au XIXe siècle
pp. 525–542
La identidad de la Compañía de Jesús ante su Restauración
— Perla Chinchilla Pawling
pp. 543–554
— Michela Catto
pp. 555–569
Aggiornamenti hagiographiques (XVIIème-XXème siècles)
— Gérard Neveu
pp. 571–586
La longue gestation des Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu
— Robert Danieluk
2. L’Esprit de la Compagnie
pp. 589–606
Les Exercices et la direction spirituelle chez les jésuites français au XIXe siècle
— Patrick Goujon
pp. 607–622
Une maison jésuite de retraite: Manrèse à Clamart
— Frédéric Gugelot
pp. 623–638
— Fernanda Alfieri
pp. 639–650
Devozione e politica: Sacro Cuore e Cristo Re
— Daniele Menozzi
The Macau Ricci Institute hosts a new MRI Public Forum led Thierry Meynard S.J., on “From Confucius to Zhu Xi: the adoption of Neo-Confucianism by the Jesuit François Noël in his Philosophia Sinica (1711)”. The lecture takes place on March 17, 18:30-20:00.
According to the Macau Ricci Institute, Jesuits in China since the time of Matteo Ricci had “recognized an authentic discourse on God in the writings of Confucius and of his school, opening a fruitful venue for Christianity to take roots in Chinese culture. However, since Ricci, the missionaries and the Chinese Christians had rejected the School of Principle of Zhu Xi and its concepts of Taiji, Li, Qi and guishen. In his Philosophia Sinica (1711), François Noël argued that Neo-confucianism continued and deepened the ancient discourse on God, and he accepts Taiji as a legitimate concept for God in the philosophical sense. Why was Noël able to examine afresh Neo-confucianism? How he did it? What are the consequences for Christian theology? Those questions are like an invitation to go forward in the dialogue between Confucianism and Christianity in the 21rst century.”
More information about this public lecture is available at: http://www.riccimac.org/index.php/en/component/djevents/details/2021-03-17/163-mri-forum-104