Examina los principios del liderazgo de los Jesuitas, una orden religiosa del siglo XVI fundada por San Ignacio de Loyola, discute su éxito en una gama de campos, y mira cómo sus cuatro pilares de liderazgo: el centro de la conciencia de sí mismo, la ingeniosidad, el amor, y el …
This title examines the principles of leadership according to the Jesuits, a religious order of the XVI century founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola and discusses his success in a wide range of fields. The author shows how these same principles (self-awareness, ingenuity, love and …
In the 1640s -- a decade of epidemic and warfare across colonial North America -- eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men, known to the devout as the North American martyrs, would become…
In the 1640s eight Jesuits met a terrifying death at the hands of native antagonists. In 1930 they were canonized as North America's first saints. The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs illuminates these seminal acts of violence and charts their ever-changing, con…
Tells the story of the first Jesuit mission to China. This title shows how, confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in this fabled Forbidde…
Tells the story of the first Jesuit mission to China. This title shows how, confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in this fabled Forbidde…
In 'Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism' Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle's thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impa…
"In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn uses the Jesuit Relations to shed light on the dialogue between Jesuit missionaries and the Native peoples of northeastern North America, providing a historical anthropology of two cultures attempting to understand, contend with, and accommo…