The Portal to Jesuit Studies

A free, collaborative resource for research and scholarship on the Society of Jesus; an initiative of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, @BostonCollege

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

https://t.co/Dy7KMDFDzE now available, #thePortal to #JesuitStudies: informed direction to #Jesuit #history, sources, and scholarship

[Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress]

“A generation ago, no one would have seen Jesuit studies as a clearly demarcated field, and we have come a long way.” Read The Jesuits author Markus Friedrich’s interview with Seth Meehan for @americamag: https://t.co/D8XyGqnM17

[Church History @ASChurchHistory]

For today's recent book in the history of Christianity, we are featuring "Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020," edited by Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. Parker.

Check it out at @UNMPress: https://t.co/GLT81K3L91

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

.@americamag interview with Markus Friedrich, author of The Jesuits: A History (@PrincetonUPress)

"The best scholars do not study the Jesuits per se but rather use the Jesuits to better understand larger issues"

#jesuitstudies
https://t.co/xsMq4WUP81 via @americamag

[ThinkingFaith @ThinkingFaith]

Today is the anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus in 1814 after a 40-year suppression. We asked Jesuit historian Thomas M. McCoog to tell us the fascinating story of the Jesuits’ downfall and re-establishment…and everything in between! https://t.co/ANSC0hpwfS

[America Magazine @americamag]

Interview: To understand world history, study the Jesuits
https://t.co/dkVGJiUxB4

[BU CGCM @bucgcm]

On Wednesday, July 27th at 9 am USA Eastern Standard Time, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University will showcase the first version of the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD). To learn more about the event, click
https://t.co/MYMJuPt8JY

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

Wonderful #bookreview by Ronnie Hsia @PSUHistory in @TheTLS

Examines both Markus Friedrich's "The Jesuits: A History" (@PrincetonUPress) and Camilla Russell's "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy" (@Harvard_Press)

#JesuitStudies #JesuitHistory

https://t.co/bEBSa5Qe9b

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

A broadside on the arrival of four Japanese ambassadors in Milan with a hand-coloured woodcut depicting four young men and one their Jesuit teacher Meschita in Western attire, and with a title and text in letterpress. Augsburg, 1586.

(British Museum)

[Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies @IAJSBC]

Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director of the Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu – ARSI) will present at the next Jesuit Studies Café on Thursday, May 19th @ 9:20am (U.S. Eastern).

Learn More:
https://t.co/KmN4q1st2C

#JesuitStudies
@FBK_research @FC_UL

[Kyle B Roberts @kylebroberts]

Happy to share on #dayofdh2022 an essay just published by @IAJSBC that came out of my #DH work @LUCTSDH @LUCArchives and @Loyolahistdept on the @JesuitProject : “Archiving Jesuit Libraries: Past, Present, and Future” #CatholicDH
https://t.co/vRyhpVhLaw

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

7 Apr 1506: b. Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits, missioner in #India #Japan #otd at Javier, kingdom of #Navarre (JSancheze)

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

The @Sangallistituto welcomes applications for a week-long workshop on Rome's central #catholicarchives of religious orders in June 2022

Apply by April 30

Details
https://t.co/8RW8gLALe4

More #CatholicHistory news at the Portal to #JesuitStudies
https://t.co/DEULejfOtH

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

Impressive recent scholarship on the #Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes -- works in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian

See more at the #openaccess Jesuit Online Bibliography

https://t.co/6FHRTf0QF1

#JesuitStudies #JesuitHistory

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

15 Mar 1591: b. Alexandre de Rhodes #Jesuit missionary - he laid the foundations for the modern #Vietnamese alphabet #otd

[Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies @IAJSBC]

David Miros, Director of the Jesuit Archives & Research Center of St. Louis, MO, will present at the next Jesuit Studies Café on Thursday, March 17th @ 9:20am (U.S. Eastern).

Learn More:
https://t.co/KmN4q1aRE2…

#JesuitStudies
@FBK_research @FC_UL

[Center for Research on Global Catholicism @CRGC_SLU]

As March is quickly approaching there are also exciting events coming up such as the "Imaging Jesuit Sanctity Conference" on Fr. Mar 11 and Sat Mar 12! Check out the flyer for details.
#globalcatholicism #jesuitsaints #conference

[Durham History of Catholicism @histcatholic]

CCS member Dr. Sarah Barthélemy is organising a conference on the theme of the Jesuits and female holiness from the 16th to the 19th century. Selected sessions will be in English. Register your interest here: https://t.co/EqUwVN3ZI9 #nuntastic #jesuit #twitterstorians

[CIUHCT @ciuhct]

📌 Amanhã, pelas 18h30
Lançamento de "A Biblioteca Erudita de Campolide: A história de uma biblioteca jesuíta dispersa pela República" (Lucerna) de @fmaltaromeiras, na @broteria_
A apresentar o livro estarão @HenriqueLeito6 e Luana Giurgevich (@ErcRutter).

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

31 Jan 1615: d. Claudio Acquaviva SJ, 5th general of #Jesuits.

Espoused 'sauviter in modo et fortiter in re' [gently/pleasantly in manner, firmly/strongly in deed] #otd

An excellent way of proceeding.

[The Portal to Jesuit Studies @JesuitPortal]

@jolieblanchard @jdmccafferty @Tudorscribe @thetudortimes @TudorTweep @monksinmotion @JesuitArchives Here is an English translation of Campion's Ten Reasons (Rationes decem) with a rather helpful introduction
https://t.co/0ckRGbsXaG

And citations for recent scholarship on Campion can be found in the #openaccess Jesuit Online Bibliography
https://t.co/XqZvS0deZm

#jesuitstudies

[Alexandra Nusser @AlexandraNusse1]

Exciting report by @ElysaFrei about „The #European #Jesuit #Libraries #Provenance Project“ @JesuitProject #Missionary
@ReIReStudies scholar

@JesuitPortal
@BostonCollege
#librarylove

https://t.co/i344TO8Euk