...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...

...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...

...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...

...Bridget María Chesterton Robert H. Jackson's study of the Guaraní and Chiquitos missions is part of a revival in the literature about the Jesuits' work in the interior of South America. Jackson's text joins a rich English literature by Barbara Ganson and Julia J. S. Sarreal, whose works...

...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...

...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 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...

...Charlotte M. Gradie Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 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. doi...

... 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...

... © 2015 by 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...

...? What 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...

... 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...

... addresses Jesuit attitudes toward the colonial practice of Indian slavery. Unlike Africa, where conversion to Christianity was mobilized to justify slavery, prominent clerics in the Americas opposed slavery on the grounds that it impeded evangelism (p. 37). Given the importance of Metcalf's claims to the...

... rituals and 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...

... of the Jesuit missions among the Guarani. Furthermore, the populations of Pames and Jonaces who were congregated in the Franciscan missions did not have demographic viability, since the birth rate was lower than the mortality rate. Franciscans and royal officials forced the Pames and Jonaces to adopt...

... J. Weber showed in his 2005 book, in the mid-eighteenth century the Bourbons took the new approach of integrating missions and indigenous peoples into the market economy. In defending his claims that Franciscans interfered more than Jesuits in native societies, Jackson highlights that Franciscans...

... martyrdom] in the north of Mexico brought new peoples and circumstances to its repertoire” (p. 157). Furtado narrates the intriguing journey of two Brazilian mulattoes to Dahomey as a way to accentuate complex identities (black African mothers, white Catholic fathers) and influences (both Jesuit and...

... 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...

... narrative. A man of quickly shifting fortunes, Knivet had kept for himself a treasure chest of Spanish silver that he had found in the sacked Jesuit college in Santos. But things turned badly when, in the frigid Strait of Magellan, he pulled off his stockings and his “toes came with them,” his “feete...

... litigation as early as the early seventeenth century. If litigation had placed the king as a mediator in the struggles between slaveholders and the enslaved, by the end of the eighteenth century an important transformation had ensued. The imperial state itself had become, after the expulsion of the Jesuits...