Questions tagged [jesuits]
The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and noted for its educational, missionary, and charitable works.
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Did the Jesuit missions in New Spain coerce native labor?
Several Catholic orders operated missions in colonial Mexico; Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits (before their expulsion) all had their own strategies. Alejandro Murguía in The Medicine of Memory ...
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Looking for colonial era evidence of Jesuit missions from San Martin Peru up to the Pastaza river
if there are any Peruvian colonial era history experts out there, I'm looking for a citable source of some kind for the following scenario.
In my research I've noticed an interesting discrepancy in ...
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Did Freemasons motivate Spain's expulsion of Jesuits?
Carlos III of Spain was a Catholic, but an anticlerical one. After riots in Madrid, he expelled the Society of Jesus (and was followed in this by Pope Clement XIV). The same year, 1767, the first ...
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How do the efforts of the Jesuits in China differ from their efforts in Japan?
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How do the efforts of the Jesuits in Ming China China differ from their efforts in Japan?
I know that when the Jesuits arrived in both countries, they started to convert people into ...
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How did people dress at the Jesuit missions to the Hurons?
The Jesuits established a number of missions among the Huron people of what is today Ontario during the 1600s. Unlike many other proselytizing groups of that era, the Jesuits were known for ...
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