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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THEOLOGIENS PAR EFFRACTION: LES PLUS PAUVRES RENOUVELLENT L’INTELLIGENCE DE LA FOI by Etienne Grieu

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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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Searching through the shelves of the «storia» of Francesco II Maria della Rovere’s library by Elisa Tosi Brandi

“…In fact, sifting through the books that the duke purchased with the advice of the Jesuit Paolo Beni, one discovers editorial novelties that reflect the tastes of an era as well as the ambitions of the duke, who was engaged in the years of the establishment of this modern printed library in a policy of relaunching his dynasty, which he felt he had to anchor more firmly to the origins of the prestige of the house and, therefore, to the cultural operations elaborated at the time of Federico Montefeltro, as well as the military ones carried out by Francesco Maria I.…”
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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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Blessed John Duns Scotus and Recent Papal Pronouncements by Sjaak Zonneveld

“…Le poète jésuite anglais Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) a été profondément influencé par le bienheureux Jean Duns Scot (env. 1266-1308), un théologien et philosophe du Moyen-Âge. …”
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Le Darwin de Hopkins: déchiffrage contextuel by Cary H. Plotkin

“…Naturaliste à la manière victorienne, exercé aux catégories philosophiques classiques du programme d’Oxford, formé en théologie jésuite, poète de la nature et de Dieu, il semblerait en effet avoir les qualités requises d’un «témoin-clé de l’âge de Darwin». …”
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Problema protocronismului. Precizări by Edgar Papu

“…Running chronologically, the paper starts with a 16th c. work – contemporary to Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) – due to the Lord of Walachia, Néagoé Bassarab, entitled The Lectures meant for his son Theodosius (1519-1521), which establishes a canon of reigning principles and skills at hand to his heir to the throne, considered by the author Edgar Papu to anticipate the appearance of the Baroque type of “hombre secreto” described in the treaties of the Jesuit monk Baltasar Gracián, called El Discreto (1646) and Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647). …”
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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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