DESCARTES’ ONTOLOGY AND THE IDEA OF NATURE CONTROL by Česlovas Kalenda

“…Descartes, a pupil of the Jesuit college, was devoted to a comparatively moderate position concerning the problems of nature control without any claim to global domination that was distinct to the gnosticism and hermetism of that time. …”
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Images of India in the Lithuanian press of Catholic missions, 1927–1940 by Laurynas Kudijanovas

“…Based on the articles published in the Jesuit magazine “Misijos” and the Salesian magazine “Saleziečių žinios” in 3rd and 4th decades of the 20th century, three main images that represented India in Lithuania are examined: Indian spirituality and religiosity, social problems of society, primarily the caste system and women’s rights, and finally the ferocious nature of the land. …”
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Jezuité v Historii církevní Pavla Skály ze Zhoře a jejich možná role ve Skálově pojetí dějin by Tereza Lyčková

“…Being written by a protestant author, ’Historie církevní’ contains rather a detailed image of the Jesuit Order hidden within its text. The Jesuits were presented by Skála through a collection of various motives connected to the Order, which also allowed him to create his own image of the Order. …”
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“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation by Marcin Godawa

“…The object is God’s Grandeur, a brilliant sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet, priest, Jesuit, a man of spiritual passion. Its analysis along with interpretation, in terms of both poetics and spiritual theology, will allow us to see how aesthetic contemplation works and could bear fruit for a contemporary man’s relation to himself or herself, to the world as well as most importantly to God, the source of created goodness. …”
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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“…The motif was transformed during the Early Baroque Era to a poetical picture and during the first half of the 17th Century it has been applied in several Emblem books encluding enormously favourite and influential treatise Pia desideria written by Jesuit Herman Hugo and edited in Antwerp in 1624. …”
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František Antonín z Dietrichsteina (1643–1721) – šlechtic v řadách Tovaryšstva Ježíšova by Zuzana Orálková

“… The study deals with the personality of Franz Anton von Dietrichstein and his (seemingly) sudden decision to enter the Jesuit order during his study stay in Rome in 1666 and resign from the already acquired canonry in Passau, Regensburg and Olomouc. …”
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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo by Luca Ciucci

“…The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-day Ayoreo. …”
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La lengua guaraní dependiente en tiempos de Independencia en Paraguay by Bartomeu Melià (S. J.)

“…Jesuitic Guaraní therefore seems to have outlived the Jesuits’ actual presence. …”
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Cibo e rifugiati nella città capitolina, tra pratiche di emergenza e tentativi di agentività by Donatella Schmidt, Giovanna Palutan

“…The first case refers to a bottom up hospitality experience named Baobab; the second case refers to a more structured experience, a soup-kitchen devoted to asylum seekers run by the Jesuit International Service for Refugees. Two main questions will lead our work: what is the sense of food for activists and volunteers in the two case-studies under consideration? …”
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THE YIJING AND THE CRISIS OF WESTERN TRADITION by Ernest Ženko

“…The Yijing, however, did not only influence Chinese contexts, but from the 18th century on, its impact was felt also in the West. To Jesuit translators, Leibniz and C. G. Jung, and even to 20th century physicists, artists or musicians, this ancient text had always something relevant to say. …”
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Nepomucká sousoší v Olomouci a v Žarošicích a jejich východočeské paralely. Příspěvek k poznání barokního sochařství na Moravě by Pavel Panoch

“…It finds the inspiration of these fully narrative themes in the literary tradition of martyr´s official hagiography, in the writings of the patriotic Jesuit Bohuslav Balbinus (Vita B. Joannis Nepomuceni, 1670-1671), in baroque homiletics and in the contemporary graphic prints. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…It then argues that Point Omega can be read as a complex theoretical essay, blurring the boundaries between genres, notably by establishing a dialogue with Gordon and Jesuit philosopher Teilhard de Chardin, while problematizing academic discourse. …”
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Notation publications in the context of musical life in Lithuania in the XVI-XVII centuries by Jūratė Trilupaitienė

“…The Lithuanian Jesuits, now no longer accountable to the Polish church hierarchy, began to make independent decisions about the publication of hymnals. …”
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A PEDAGOGIA DA ALTERNÂNCIA COMO PROPOSTA DE EDUCAÇÃO NO CAMPO: UM ESTUDO NA ESCOLA FAMÍLIA AGRÍCOLA ITAPIREMA EM RONDÔNIA, BRASIL by Claudineia Ferreira dos Santos, Charles Carminati de Lima, Yanet Reimondo Barrios, Daniete Fernandes Rocha

“…In Brazil, this initiative came from Jesuit missions in the state of Espírito Santo, in 1969. …”
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The first books in Kaunas by Sigitas Lūžys

“…In the middle of the 19th century, the remaining books from the Jesuits' library in Kaunas were supplemented by the remainder of the Jesuits' library from Kražiai. …”
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Mesto, vojna a jezuiti: pôsobenie jezuitov v Košiciach počas stavovských povstaní by Peter Federčák

“…The contacts between Jesuits and the city of Košice started in 1563 with the visit of Jesuits from Trnava and in 1582 of Antonio Possevino and continued by the mission of Peter Pázmány (1601) and two murdered Jesuits (1619) to the foundation of the College and University in the middle of 17th century. …”
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Some notes about the books of Žygimantas Augustas in the Vilnius University Library by Alma Braziūnienė

“…The majority of the dispersed books with provenance inscriptions from the Vilnius Jesuits College (68 volumes) are in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. …”
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„Horlivost jejich v kázání slova Božího…“ Církevní řády a rekatolizace by Ivana Čornejová

“…Amongst the most successful we can find Jesuits and Piarists – both orders profiled as educational orders. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…As a result, the Chaco – which 18th century Jesuits called the « American Babel » because of its unstable linguistic fragmentation – will become more intelligible.…”
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From Mission to Church: Nature, Spatiality, and Catholicism in Kikwit (DRC) by Mick Feyaerts

“…Founded as a mission station by Belgian Jesuits in 1912, the local Church has experienced a peculiar development over the last century. …”
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