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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Society of Jesus"”.
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Experiences of LGBTQ+ Educators in the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus: A Phenomenological Study
As a result of the way the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and federal law are interpreted in the United States, LGBTQ+ educators in Catholic schools lack comprehensive protection from employment discrimination. Despite this risk, LGBTQ+ people have been and continue to be employed in …
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The contribution of the Society of Jesus to secondary education in Liverpool : the history of the development of St. Francis Xavier's College, c.1840-1902
… traditions dating back to the foundation of the English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer in Flanders in 1593. As the earliest British manifestation of the renaissance of Jesuit day schools throughout nineteenth century Europe, St. Francis Xavier's College developed initially along continental …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Senior-year Undergraduates’ Essence of Lived Global-Citizenship (GC) Experiences Within Study Abroad Programs (SAPS) at Jesuit Catholic Universities in the U.S. Midwest (UMI) Province of the Society of Jesus (SJ)
… Dissertation in Practice explored the essence of lived global citizenship (GC) experiences of senior-year undergraduates within Study Abroad Programs (SAPs) at Jesuit Catholic universities in the U.S. Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus. Grounded in the Jesuit mission and the Ignatian …
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… early modern Jesuit theater and the construction of religious practice in the Spanish Empire. I focus upon plays that reinterpret the Biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son to argue that the Society of Jesus utilized the stage to acquire religious authority over the domestic sphere and to promote …
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Pera saberem pronunciar o que acharem escrito: ler quimbundo, língua estrangeira, no século XVII
The Society of Jesus had to supply its missionaries in Angola and Brazil with materials in Kimbundu. The earliest known book in Kimbundu (and Portuguese) is "Gentio de Angola sufficientemente instruido nos mysterios de nossa sancta Fé", a catechism written by the Jesuit Fathers Francesco Pacconio …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… place in context the developing interpretation of Confucius and Confucianism propounded by the Jesuit missionaries in China during the period of the old mission, from its inception c. 158O to its collapse after the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 The Jesuit interpretation of …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… place in context the developing interpretation of Confucius and Confucianism propounded by the Jesuit missionaries in China during the period of the old mission, from its inception c. 158O to its collapse after the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 The Jesuit interpretation of …
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Academic capitalism and Jesuit higher education: a critical discourse analysis of mission statements
Slaughter and Rhoades (2009) developed the theory of academic capitalism to explain the market-like behaviors of colleges and universities, which has been made more prevalent by the rise in neoliberal ideology and the new knowledge-based economy. Bok (2003), Giroux (2003), and others have warned …
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Giving and Red Cloud Indian School : fiscal years 2007-2011
… contributions from networks, including friends of the Society of Jesus, the Black and Indian Mission, and a national direct mail program. These fundraising efforts fluctuated significantly since the mid-century and plateau in the early 2000s forcing a board directed change to raise additional …
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
An examination of the developments in Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals the Jesuits as leaders in both dramatic and musical innovations. The emergence of seventeenth-century Jesuit theatre innovations in eighteenth-century …
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"El Eton catolico": El internado jesuita de Beaumont (Old Windsor, Inglaterra) durante el rectorado del Padre Joseph M. Bampton, S.J. (1901--1908)
This thesis constitutes a detailed study of the rectorate (1901--08) of Father Joseph M. Bampton, S.J. at Beaumont College, a secondary boarding school for boys founded by the English (now British) Province of the Society of Jesus at Old Windsor (Berkshire, England) in 1861.The period under …
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Some aspects of the intellectual relations between Galileo and the Jesuits
… propositions was issued by the Congregation of the Index) to 1623 (when Galileo published The Assayer) Jesuits of the Roman College made several attempts to draw Galileo into further discussion of his work. This was not with the intention of checking his obedience to the Decree, but in order …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… drew to a close the ‘mother and child’ image of the Virgin was being replaced by the representation of ‘Mary alone’. The move away from depicting the ‘mother and child’, and particularly the nursing mother, had begun. Medieval religiosity had been characterized by a physical piety which …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
<p>In its first century, the Society of Jesus undertook numerous missions to the various Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. In each instance, the Jesuits faced obstacles to their efforts to Catholicize the Christian Orient. Through an examination of the Jesuit experience in the early …
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Investigating the Extent of Collaboration Between Jesuit Administrators and non-Jesuit Faculty and Staff in Jesuit Secondary Schools in the Eastern Africa Province: Staying True to Mission
<p>Investigating the Extent of Collaboration Between Jesuit Administrators and non-Jesuit Faculty and Staff in Jesuit Secondary Schools in the Eastern Africa Province: Staying True to Mission</p> <p>The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is well known for its educational institutions. Over the years, …
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Solidarity According to the Thought of Fr. Pedro Arrupe and Its Application to Jesuit Higher Education Today
… S.J. was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus in 1965 and served in that role until 1983. As superior general, Arrupe sought to shape the Jesuits in the spirit of the vision of Vatican II, as well as the original charism of the founder of the Jesuit, St. Ignatius. The …
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“Acontecem no Japão coisas notáveis”: percepções de alteridade e territorialidade na ilha de Kyûshû (1603-1639)
Within the scope of maritime trade in the Indian and the Pacific Ocean at the end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century, Japan is in the period of its history known as reunification. After the period of internal wars, or Sengoku Jidai, in 1603, the Tokugawa house assumed the …
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Jesuit Education and Mathematics: Review of the Literature on Jesuit Education and Mathematics
<p>The purpose of the thesis is to review recent literature on diverse aspects of Jesuit cation including its historiography, pedagogy, teaching, philosophy, and its contributions to Id of Mathematics. The time frame studied has been divided in four main periods. Origins; encompassing the founding …
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Student Perceptions of Grit, Emotional-Social Intelligence, and the Acquisition of Non-Cognitive Skills in the Cristo Rey Corporate Work Study Program
… 1982; Neal, 1997; United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB, 1998; York, 1996). Catholic schools in the United States are closing at a steady rate from a lack of funding, and this has created an ongoing problem for the outreach efforts of the Church and the low-income families with …
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