2023 (Lisbon) – Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of the Mission Through Centuries
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E-ISSN: 2766-0664
ISBN: 978-1-947617-35-3
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2023)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.”
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: 978-1-947617-35-3
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources
International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, (2023)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.”
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
Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of the Mission Through Centuries
Introduction and Keynotes
Introduction
Author(s): Alessandro Corsi, Claudio Ferlan, and Francisco Malta Romeiras
Page(s): 1–2
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Jesuit Missions and Multilateral “Accommodations” in the Early Modern World
Author(s): Camilla Russel
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Publication Date: 30 September 2025
The Conversion of the Jesuits: Slavery, Authoritarianism, and the Catholic Church in Haiti
Author(s): Malick W. Ghachem
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Section 1. Europe
Reception of the Sixteenth-Century Jesuit Mission in Japan and Japanese Martyrs in Early Eighteenth-Century Poland: Oratio XVI; Tres heroes ad stemma crucis admissi seu Nobilitas martyrum Japonensium S[ocietatis]J[esu] by Andrzej Michał Temberski, S.J.
Author(s): Bartosz Awianowicz
Page(s): 1–15
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
An Army of the Devil in the Indie Romane: The Jesuits’ Struggle against Religious Ignorance in the Early Seventeenth Century
Author(s): Jacopo Bertol
Page(s): 1–11
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Gaudium inter luctus. The diffusion of Jesuits’ ideas in eighteenth-century Hungary
Author(s): Katarína Karabová
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Jesuit missionaries in the twentieth century. Experiences and reflections from the magazine Le Missioni della Compagnia di Gesù (1915-1969)
Author(s): Daiana Menti
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A Missionary Poetics of Translation: Tommaso Stanislao Velasti as a Jesuit Cultural Broker in the Levant
Author(s): Mara Psalti
Page(s): 1–21
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
The English Jesuit Mission: At the Edge of Europe; At the Crossroads of Worldwide Mission
Author(s): Robert E. Scully, S.J.
Page(s): 1–15
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Section 2. Asia
The China Mission at Work (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries): Outcomes of the Res Sinicae Project
Author(s): Cristina Costa Gomes, and João Teles e Cunha
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A Mission between Two Missions. Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s History of Japan
Author(s): Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
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Jesuit Procurators and the East Asian Missions in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: – Material Cultures in Motion
Author(s): Diogo Reis Pereira
Page(s): 1–18
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Goa, Lisbon, and Rome: A “Triangle” of Business and Culture
Author(s): Maria João Pereira Coutinho
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Entangled in the global networks of Macau: Jesuit Procurators and their Business in the Seventeenth Century
Author(s): Leonor Pratas
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Comparisons between the manuscript from José Monteiro and the surviving documents in Chinese and other European languages
Author(s): Di Wu
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Section 3. America
Michel de Certeau and his travels to Latin America: the reconfiguration of the notion of mission
Author(s): Carlos Alvarez, S.J.
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Calling upon the Angels of a Place: The Renewed Appreciation of Place in 20th Century Missiology
Author(s): Andrew Barrette
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A Prosopography of Jesuit “Musical Missionaries” in the Early Modern Era
Author(s): Daniele V. Filippi
Page(s): 1–15
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Counter-Reformation Colonialism: The Knatchbull Catechism in Seventeenth-Century Maryland
Author(s): Helen Kilburn
Page(s): 1–25
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
The Churches of the Jesuit Guaraní and Chiquitos Missions: An Architectural History Draft
Author(s): Eckart Kühne
Page(s): 1–18
Publication Date: 30 September 2025