The Deceivers Deceived: How a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Anti-Jesuit Circle Duped a Jesuit Rector

Utopia in the Midst of Oppression? A Reconsideration of Guaraní/Jesuit Communities in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paraguay

Wheeling Jesuit University

Explanation of the coding system: The following abstracts are presented in alphabetical order by first author. For the oral presentations, the information in the brackets includes the time of the presentation (e.g. 2:28), the session (e.g. 2C), and the location of the session (e.g. ASC-212). For poster sessions, the bracketed information includes the time of the session (e.g. 1:15) and the post...

Jesuit Missionaries Building a Global Network. Eighteenth-Century Exploration of the World in the Name of God – A Story of Disjointed Memory Jesuit Missionaries Building a Global Network

Globalization can be impressively illustrated through a critical examination of the Jesuits as they existed until the late eighteenth century.1 I want to describe a particular aspect of the early history of the region today identifi ed as Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona, commonly called ‘Sonora,’ before I turn my attention to a discussion of a publication refl ecting the universal outreach...

The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century

The Society of Jesus and the Jesuits in Russia In the sixteenth century, St Ignatius of Loyola had a dramatic conversion experience, which he later wrote about in his autobiography. He was a Spanish knight who had led a secular life until, whilst recovering from a major injury suffered in battle, he took up spiritual reading, including the lives of saints, and chose Christ as his hero. His most...

Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit Science

Benedictus Pererius (1535–1610) published in 1576 his most successful book De principiis, after he had taught philosophy at the Roman College of the Jesuits. It will be shown that parts of this book are actually based on his lectures. But the printed version was intended as a contribution to the debate within his Order on how science should be conceived. Pererius redefined the meaning of scient...