2024 (Boston) – Renovatio Mundi: The Jesuits as Educators in History
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E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 979-8-90493-018-9
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International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2024)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2024 at Boston College. The theme for the event was “Renovatio Mundi: The Jesuits as Educators in History.”
The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind peer review. All necessary information for reference for each essay appears on its downloadable pdf document. Essays will be published on a rolling basis.
Learn more about the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies.
Open Access
E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 979-8-90493-018-9
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2024)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2024 at Boston College. The theme for the event was “Renovatio Mundi: The Jesuits as Educators in History.”
The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind peer review. All necessary information for reference for each essay appears on its downloadable pdf document. Essays will be published on a rolling basis.
Learn more about the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies.
Table of Contents
Renovatio Mundi: The Jesuits as Educators in History
Introduction
Authors: Cristiano Casalini, and Alessandro Corsi
Pages: 1–5
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Part 1
Sinicum idioma: Jesuit educators, the making of language tools, and the role of Portuguese
Author: Cristina Costa Gomes, and Isabel Murta Pina
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From pilgrims to missionaries: The shifts of Jesuitic sermons in the early modern period
Author: Maria Renata da Cruz Duran
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Jesuit Education Meets Neo-Confucianism: The Transmission and Reorganization of the Jesuit Hierarchy of Learning at the Qing Court
Author: Qingfan Jiang
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“It is noble because it heals the mind:” Antonio Possevino on Medical Education (Bibliotheca Selecta, Book 14)
Author: Serena Mambriani
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Teaching Aristotle’s Ethics in Coimbra and Évora: Manuel de Góis’ Disputationes in face of earlier manuscript lessons
Author: Emanuel Nogueira
Pages: 1–23
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Reinventing Jesuit Rhetoric in the curriculum of Jesuit Education in Japan
Author: Aiko Okamoto-Macphail
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Pre-Suspension Jesuit Humanism Culture of Imagination in Compositions of Tomas Luis De Victoria and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Leonardo Panigada
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Li Di (1840–1911): A Chinese Jesuit and His Translations for Pedagogy
Author: Xiaojing Zeng
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Part 2
From Macau College to Annam: Journey to Become a Peritus Lingoa
Authors: Kim-Bảo Đặng
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Musicking in the Missions: The Indigenous Mission Opera San Francisco Xavier and Its Living Legacy
Author: Phillip Alcon Ganir, S.J.
Pages: 1–25
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Well-Prepared Travelers: Jesuit Travel Documents as Devices of Education, Mobility, and Control
Author: Yuval Givon
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The “New Mission of Syria” and its Jesuit education system (1875–1914)
Author: Rafael Herzstein
Pages: 1–14
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Students Outside the Classroom: Housing, Eating, and Behaving in the (Grammar) Schools of the Austrian Jesuit Province Around 1670–1740
Author: Zsófia Kádár
Pages: 1–19
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Ephemeral Apparatuses, Everlasting Success. The Triumph of the Jesuit College in the Words of Francesco Sforza Pallavicino (1640)
Author: Laura Madella
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Teaching the Faith in a Hostile Environment: The Jesuit Challenge in Elizabethan England
Author: Robert Scully, S.J.
Pages: 1–21
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Educating Audiences for Educating Devotees: The Use of Cinema in the Italian Jesuit Network (1920s–60s)
Author: Steven Stergar
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Seminary Formation of St. Thomas Christians in the 16th-century Kerala, India
Author: Jomet Vazhayil
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“We are arming our enemies:” The ambiguities of converting non-Catholics in Jesuit schools of the Habsburg monarchy in the 16th century
Author: Dmitry Zharov
Pages: 1–23
Publication Date: 30 October 2026