Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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Norme, écart et usages : premiers éléments d’une étude sur les anciens collèges jésuites en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes by Catherine Guégan

“…The chronological framework chosen runs from the creation of the first Jesuit college in France, in 1556, to the date of expulsion of the order from the kingdom of France, in 1762.On the one hand, we intend to compare the general framework of the regulations established by the Society of Jesus for the construction of its houses, particularly attentive to the questions of functionality and adaptation of spaces to liturgical, community and educational needs, and the design and implementation arrangements for the construction of the studied colleges, and on the other hand, to show how these rules could be reconciled with local constraints and uses, reflecting the flexibility and adaptability of the Society’s members to the specifics of each territory.The questions asked by this contribution are the following: can we highlight a network of Jesuit colleges (points and degrees of similarity in design and construction, filiations and variants, singularities, etc.) as ancestors/models for high schools from 1802 onwards, especially in terms of their location and distribution? …”
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Stanisław Bednarski SJ and prof. Stanisław Kot: pupil and master by Stanisław Cieślak SJ

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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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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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EL SUBSISTEMA REDUCCIONAL JESUÍTICO DEL BORDE ORIENTAL DE LAS PAMPAS Y SU VÍNCULO REGIONAL CON LOS ESTABLECIMIENTOS PRODUCTIVOS DE BUENOS AIRES, 1740-1753 by Fabian Arias

“…That situation is transformed to the cell in a subsystem, interconnected with other subsystems-cells along the Jesuit province of Paraguay.…”
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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

“…In the article author follows a view that although rational thinking can be found in all literate societies around the globe, differences between cultures develop to a certain degree also from basic distinctions between philosophical ways of thinking. …”
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