Michael J. Buckley, S.J.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Part One. Refraining Jesuit History
8. 1. The Historiography Of The Society Of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today? 3
9. 2. `Le style jésuite n'existe pas' Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts 38
10. 3. The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case 90
11. 4. The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science 107
12. Part Two. The Roman Scene
13. 5. Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste 132
14. 6. Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano 148
15. 7. From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in philosophy and good literature' Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600-1665 170
16. 8. Music History in the Musurgia universalis of Athanasius Kircher 190
17. Part Three. Mobility: Overseas Missions And The Circulation Of Culture
18. 9. Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge 210
19. 10. Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Academic Royale des Sciences 241
20. 11. Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World 258
21. 12. East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas 274
22. 13. The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Río de la Plata Region 305
23. 14. Candide and a Boat 317
24. Part Four. Encounters With The Other: Between Assimilation And Domination
25. 15. Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits And Culture In The East 334
26. 16. Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped By The Chinese 352
27. 17. Translation As Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology In The Transformation Of The Confucian Discourse On Human Nature 364
28. 18. The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism And The Arts In Mughal India 380
29. 19. Roberto De Nobili's Dialogue On Eternal Life And An Early Jesuit Evaluation Of Religion In South India 402
30. 20. The Jesuits And The Indigenous Peoples Of The Philippines 418
31. Part Five. Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation
32. 21. Bernini's Image Of The Ideal Christian Monarch 440
33. 22. Innovation And Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution To Architectural Development In Portuguese India 480
34. 23. God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics Of Juan Bautista Villalpando In The Sixth And Tenth Centuries B.C.E. 505
35. 24. Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De Anima Commentaries 522
36. 25. Jesuit Physics In Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities 538
37. 26. The Jesuits And Polish Sarmatianism 555
38. Part Six. Conversion And Confirmation Through Devotion And The Arts
39. 27. The Art Of Salvation In Bavaria 566
40. 28. Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer And Emblematist In Stuart England 600
41. 29. Jesuit Casuistry Or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots Of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity 627
42. 30. The Use Of Music By The Jesuits In The Conversion Of The Indigenous Peoples Of Brazil 641
43. 31. The Jesuits In Manila, 1581-1621 The Role Of Music In Rite, Ritual, And Spectacle 659
44. 32. Jesuit Devotions And Retablos In New Spain 680
45. Part Seven. Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go From Here?
46. Joseph Connors 700
47. Luce Giard 707
48. Michael J. Buckley, S.J. 713
49. Index 717