This thesis explores the history of Christianity and conversion to it in 16th and 17th Century Japan. It argues that conversion is a complex phenomenon which happened for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, it argues that due to the political context and limitations acting upon t…
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For several decades historians have struggled with the dynamics of cross-cultural contact and the creation of perceptions of the "other". Detailed studies of the European image of the Islamicate world during the pre-modern period rarely analyze why and how these representations …
Jesuits presented evidence in both French and Chinese to defend Christianity by citation of legal and historical precedents in favor of the "Teaching of the Lord of Heaven" (Catholicism) even after the Yongzheng Emperor's 1724 imperial edict proscribed the religion as a heterodo…
Over the decade spanning the 1830s, the Flathead tribe of Montana, on four separate occasions, sent representatives to St. Louis in search of black-robed priests and teachers. In the controversy surrounding the object of that visit, whether for the "Book" or for the "Black Robes…
On March 26, 1553, Ignatius of Loyola, founder and Superior General of the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus, addressed a letter of exhortation to the Fathers and Brothers of the Portuguese province. Having heard about the insubordination of its members, Ign…
Esta investigación aborda la religiosidad de las primeras generaciones de jesuitas hispanos que, tras la aprobación papal de 1540 y la entrada de la Compañía de Jesús en la Monarquía Católica, encabezaron la expansión y fortalecimiento de la orden religiosa a lo largo del territ…
This dissertation centers on the life of Patrick Francis Healy, the son of an enslaved woman and an Irish slaveholder. Born in 1834, Healy became a Jesuit priest in 1864 and the president of Georgetown University in 1874, seven decades before Georgetown admitted its first Africa…