Apa rahasia keberhasilan pendidikan Jesuit? Apakah sejak awal Serikat Jesus didirikan untuk karya pendidikan? Bagaimana pendidikan Jesuit dari zaman ke zaman bisa tetap eksis sampai hari ini? Buku Men & Women for Others ini memberikan panorama tentang sumber pendidikan Jesuit dan usaha Jesuit untuk terus melestarikan pendidikan sampai sekarang. Masa kini ditandai dengan zaman yang cair. "Cair"…
Paus Fransiskus adalah anggota pertama Serikat Yesus, salah satu ordo religius terbesar dalam gereja Katolik, yang terpilih menjadi paus dalam hampir lima ratus tahun keberadaan ordonya. Serikat Yesus dikenal dengan sumpah khusus para anggotanya untuk taat pada kepausan. Terlepas dari sumpah tersebut, para Jesuit dan paus sering berselisih, yang pada akhirnya menyebabkan seorang paus memenjarak…
Buku ini menyajikan kumpulan tulisan yang mendiskusikan aneka kekayaan rohani Santo Ignasius Loyola yang disimak dari pelbagai dimensi hidupnya. Beberapa tema yang didiskusikan di antaranya ialah Kehidupan Mistik Ignasius; Doa Ignasian: Mencari Allah dalam Segala Sesuatu; Ignasius sebagai Pembimbing Rohani, dan seterusnya. Artikel-artikel dalam buku ini secara khusus ingin mewariskan dimensi-di…
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the cultivation of science in the Republic of Letters. Readership: Anyone interested in eighteenth-century Central Europe and Scandinavia, in the production and circulati…
What is Jesuit art?1 A person could answer: objects made by and forJesuits; the decoration of Jesuit churches; or simply the physical remnants of the Society of Jesus, from the confirmation of the order by Pope Paul iii (1468–1549, r.1534–49) on September 27, 1540 to its suppression by Pope Clement xiv (1705–74, r.1769–74) on July 21, 1773. None of these definitions would be wrong, but …
Within a few decades the Society of Jesus will observe the five hundredth anniversary of its founding in 1540. During the course of almost five centuries, it has had a rich, complex, and often tumultuous history. Much admired and much reviled, it has from the beginning eluded facile categorization. On the most basic level, the Society is simply a Roman Catholic religious order, whose members …
In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola’s early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola’s homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confr…
esent narrative, see 'The Founder of New France' in this Series.] Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders. But out in the great land, in every direction from the rude dwellings that housed the pioneers of Canada, roamed savage tribes, living, said Champlain, 'like brute beasts.' It was Champlain's ardent desire to …
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Ac…
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis in the formation of the Jesuit missions, as well as the significance of patriarchal dynamics. Focus…