...Galen Brokaw Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . Map. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xii , 132 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2012 by...

...Eileen M. Ford Jesuit Student Groups, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Political Resistance in Mexico, 1913–1979 . By Espinosa David . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 196 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University...

...Bridget María Chesterton Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609–1803: The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context . By Jackson Robert H. . European Expansion and...

...Pedro M. Guibovich-Pérez The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera,S.J. By sabine hyland. History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes...

...Susan Schroeder 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.1_04 Schroeder 2/11/00 4:34 PM Page 43 Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710–1767 Susan Schroeder This congregation was...

...Charlotte M. Gradie Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. By nicholas p. cushner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 255 pp. Paper. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 doi 10.1215...

...Daniel T. Reff Soldiers of God: The Jesuits in Colonial America, 1565–1767. By nicholas p. cushner. Buffalo, NY: Language Communications, 2002(2001). Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 402 pp. Paper. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews General...

...Charlotte M. Gradie The Jesuits in Latin America, 1549 – 2000: 450 Years of Inculturation, Defense of Human Rights, and Prophetic Witness . By Klaiber Jeffrey L. , sj . St. Louis, MO : Institute of Jesuit Sources , 2009 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 463. Paper, $28.95...

... indigenous communities. Jesuit father Bartolomé Castaño, laboring in the colony's northern missions, published the questionnaire's most frequently repeated version in 1644. Renditions in Spanish and in 11 (or more) native languages vary somewhat in the number of questions and the exact questions asked, but a...

... Duke University Press 2015 In contrast to the Spanish-language literature, there are only a few rigorous studies in English on the Jesuit missions of Paraguay. This lack has been generally covered over by eloquent classics of apologetics such as A Vanished Arcadia (1901) by R. B. Cunninghame Graham...

...Sabine Hyland Duke University Press 2006 Communication September 30, 2005 To the Editors: In a review of The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Val- era, Pedro Guibovich-Pérez claims that I depend upon the controversial Naples documents as sole evidence for...

...Pedro Guibovich Pérez Duke University Press 2006 Communication September 30, 2005 To the Editors: In a review of The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Val- era, Pedro Guibovich-Pérez claims that I depend upon the controversial Naples documents as sole...

... place did casuistry and probabilism have in the creation of the Jesuits' corporate culture? Recent literature has provided partial answers to these questions. However, the assumption shared by both detractors and apologists of the order—that the Society of Jesus constituted a monolithic body backed by...

... la vivencia del Paraguay, 2 vols. (Asunción: Instituto Paraguayo de Estudios Nacionales, 1982–83); and David Block, Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660–1880 (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press...

... Christianity. The first of these, by Alida Metcalf, considers the sixteenth-century arrival of the Jesuits to claim that “the mission village was not imposed from Lisbon or Rome, but evolved on the ground in Brazil” (p. 30). Metcalf reviews early Jesuit policies as they emerged from theological interpretation...

... practices within the jurisdiction of the Audiencia of Lima, and the Andean religious specialists' interaction with Jesuits also figures prominently. Her central focus is on holy objects, called huacas , and the religious specialists' commemoration of these. New insights are brought to such topics as birds...

... (p. 138). As those missions were raised by the same friars who later worked in California, it is logical to assume that they used comparable urban plans in each location. Jackson goes further and suggests that this urban plan was quite similar to the spatial organization of the Jesuit missions among...

... bringing the Pames and Jonaces into missions in the 1740s, whereas the Jesuits had started the Chiquitos missions half a century earlier and the Paraguayan mission over a century earlier. A major problem is that much of the book focuses on other native peoples, leaving Jackson without sufficient evidence...

... Brazilian mulattoes to Dahomey as a way to accentuate complex identities (black African mothers, white Catholic fathers) and influences (both Jesuit and Jansenist) and to stress the interweaving of Portuguese imperial commercial and religious goals. The comparative study of two Jesuit histories of Amazonian...

... Alliances 817 were six Jesuits under the leadership of Father Manuel da Nóbrega to whom the king had entrusted spiritual leadership in the colony.2 A papal bull of 25 February 1551 created the bishopric of Bahia, which was...