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Adeus Romuald. There is still so much more to do.
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Adeus Romuald. There is still so much more to do Romuald D’Souza SJ (1925-2019) was among the finest Jesuit educationists from Goa. Awarded the Padma Shri in 2010 for his contribution to education, Romuald had distinguished himself in the field of business management education first at the XLRI, Jamshedpur and later by founding two premier business schools: XIM, Bhubaneshwar and GIM, Goa. In his tribute to Romuald, Rinald D’Souza SJ contends how Romuald deployed his own spiritual heritage to influence his brand of business management education. Continue reading this story at https://historiadomus.net/2019/11/01/adieus-romuald-there-is-still-so-much-more-to-do Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image: Romuald D’Souza SJ being conferred the Padma Shri by Her Excellency, the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi. 2010 Image Source: Goa Jesuit Province, 2019 #historiadomus #obituary #rip #romualddsouza #padmashri #goa #jesuits #societyofjesus #gim #xlri #ximbee #management #mba #businessethics #education #spiritualexercises #magis #jesuithistory #history #heritage #historia #storia #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #gesuiti #jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus @gim_goa @xlrij @ximbee

For your #Halloween reading... First Point. This will be to see in imagination the vast fires, and the souls enclosed, as it were, in bodies of fire. While contemporary horror plots would not be found in 16th century Jesuit theaters, they bear some resemblance to the stories told by these innovative Jesuits—putting audiences face-to-face with evil and mortality. Continue reading this story at https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2019/10/30/what-did-jesuits-have-do-invention-horror-film This article has originally been published by America Magazine - The Jesuit Review Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet #halloween2019 #horror #film #horrorfilm #filmhistory #AthanasiusKircher #magiclantern #SpiritualExercises #theatre #jesuittheatre #jesuits #jesuithistory #senses #imagination #contemplation #arts #faith #Christianity #historiadomus #history #historia #heritage #histoire #geschiedenis #historiography #jesuitas #jesuites #Jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

NEW BOOK | Antony Mecherry SJ Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries). l+494 p. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu, vol. 79), 2019. Full price € 60. In “Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries)”, Antony Mecherry SJ explores the underlying dynamics of the accommodation experiments led by Francisco Ros SJ (1559–1624)—a Catalonian from the Jesuit province of Aragón—in the cultural and religious terrain of Malabar, in particular, among the region’s Christian communities. Mecherry’s historical analysis becomes a vital interpretative key to understanding the later mission launched by Roberto de Nobili SJ (1577–1656), the main proponent of accommodation in the non-Christian context of Madurai in South India. Most importantly, the study underscores the Jesuit mission in early modern India as the crucial meeting point of some of the most prominent promoters of accommodation in the first century of the Society of Jesus, including Alessandro Valignano (1539–1606) and Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). Continue reading this story at http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/en/publications/ihsi/testing-ground-for-jesuit-accommodation-in-early-modern-india/?fbclid=IwAR0AKHPxG0sQTyxvf8pVte02x03Sqiy86LyJmaslsezP6S75q06YbeoLGn4 This article has originally been published by the ARSI Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet #NewBook #AntonyMecherry #FranciscoRos #RobertoDeNobili #AlessandroValignano #MatteoRicci #earlymodern #Malabar #SouthIndia #jesuits #jesuithistory #accommodation #SouthAsia #India #ARSI #archives #jesuitarchives #Christianity #missions #historiadomus #history #historia #heritage #histoire #geschiedenis #historiography #jesuitas #jesuites #Jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

Professor Dhruv Raina on “Indology before Orientalism: The Role of the Virtual Academy of Itinerant Jesuits” at the Goa University. Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet #DhruvRaina #philosophy #philosophyofscience #technology #orientalism #goa #goauniversity #scientist #physics #jesuitscientists #Christianity #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #jesuitlife #society #culture #history #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #histoire #geschiedenis #historiography #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #Jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

The missions have long been central to the Jesuit imagination that has shaped much of its historiography. Here’s a detail of a cope celebrating the missionary Francis Xavier, now within the archival holdings of Jesuits of the European Low Countries in in Leuven. #JesuitsInJuly Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet #FrancisXavier #Leuven #Belgium #Netherlands #archives #jesuitarchives #Christianity #missions #cope #fashion #couture #hautecouture #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #jesuitlife #history #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #histoire #geschiedenis #historiography #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #Jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

While divine inspiration has been the chief motivation for most religious or missionary vocations, chance encounters can provide an impetus to it. Read the story of Kinley Tshering, a Jesuit from Bhutan and the country’s first priest. Continue reading this story at https://aleteia.org/2019/06/26/this-jesuit-became-his-nations-first-priest-after-sitting-next-to-mother-teresa-on-an-airplane This article has originally been published by @aleteia_en Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image: Mother Teresa and Kinley Tshering (©Kinley Tshering) #KinleyTshering #MotherTeresa #Bhutan #Bhutanese #DarjeelingJesuits #Darjeeling #Christianity #religion #religiouslife #priest #culturalmobility #jesuitpriest #vocation #multiculturalism #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #jesuitlife #history #life #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus @aleteia_en

Among F N Souza’s earliest expressionist tendencies were his rather comical encounters with Jesuit priests at St Xavier’s College, Bombay where his artistic nudes did not go well with the aesthetics of Jesuit discipline. Nevertheless, F N Souza (1924-2002) went on to be one of independent India’s most acclaimed artists. He cofounded the Progressive Artists’ Group of Bombay that moved away from a more nationalist tradition in art emerging from Bengal to launch a more modernist expressionism within art in India. Continue reading this story at https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/f-n-souza-between-melancholy-and-irony/article28065898.ece This article has originally been published by @the_hindu . Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image: ‘Psychiatrist and Wife’, F N Souza, 1993 @akaraart @the_hindu #FNSouza #FrancisNewtonSouza #art #modernist #expressionism #modernart #modernindianart #exhibition #artsagram #goa #bombay #artist #discipline #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #painting #fineart #history #globalhistory #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus @akaraart

The cultural mobility of Yasuke – from an African slave to being a personal valet for European Jesuit missionaries in Japan to becoming a Japanese samurai – tells of a multicultural past that now witnesses much social fracturing. Continue reading this story at https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/19/asia/black-samurai-yasuke-africa-japan-intl/index.html This article has originally been published by @CNN Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image 1: Yasuke was a slave turned samurai from Africa who lived in Japan in the sixteenth century. (CNN) Image 2: A Portuguese black ship arrives in Japan from Goa and Macau. (CNN) Image 3: Nobunaga Oda was considered the most powerful warlord in Japan. (CNN) Image 4: Nobunaga Oda was forced to commit "harakiri", a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment after his defeat in the Battle of Honno-ji. (CNN) Image 5: Full Japanese folding screen showing the arrival of Portuguese to Nagasaki. (CNN) #Yasuke #NobunagaOda #Oda #Valignano #Africa #Japan #Japanese #Portuguese #culturalmobility #samurai #slavery #multiculturalism #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #painting #fineart #history #earlymodern #globalhistory #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

Jesuits celebrate Easter at the Mughal Court The Jesuits were the earliest Europeans to visit the Mughal court of Akbar. At the invitation of Emperor Akbar (1556-1605) and under the patronage of the Portuguese in Goa, the Jesuits established three missions among the Mughals. In a letter to his Provincial in Goa, Father Jerome Xavier (1549-1617) recounts the cultural exchange in the court and the celebration of Easter Sunday in 1611. Wishing you all a Happy Easter. Keep reading. Continue reading this story at https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2013/03/easter-celebrations-at-the-mughal-court.html (This article has been reproduced from the British Library's Asian and African Studies blog.) Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image 1: Two Jesuit priests dressed in distinctive high blocked black caps and dark robes stand among a crowd bringing gifts to a Mughal prince, possibly Salim. Mughal, 1590–1600 (Johnson Album 8,6) Image 2: The concluding chapter, on Christ’s resurrection, and postscript of Jerome Xavier’s Mirʼāt al-Quds (‘Life of Christ’), copied on 8 Ramazan 1027 (29 Aug 1618). Xavier’s translation was made at the request of the Emperor Akbar and was completed at Agra in 1602 with assistance from Mawlavi ʻAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim of Lahore (Harley 5455, ff. 214-5) #easter #happyeaster #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #akbar #akbarnama #mughal #mughalindia #painting #miniature #miniaturepainting #fineart #societyofjesus #ihs #history #globalhistory #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #southasia #christianity #histories #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

The Shift in the Vatican Secret Archives On 4 March 2019, Pope Francis announced the opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) within the Vatican Archives. Apart from the polarised debate on Pope Pius XII’s role during the World War II and the Holocaust, the Vatican Archives should reveal a much broader narrative as the period of this papacy was also at the centre of a shifting global Christianity and its rapid indigenisation. Continue reading this story at historiadomus.net/2019/03/10/the-shift-in-the-vatican-secret-archives Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Rinald D’Souza, 2018 #historiadomus #vaticanarchives #vatican #jesuitarchives #jesuithistory #churchhistory #archives #piusxii #popefrancis #jesuits #societyofjesus #history #heritage #christianity #missions #indigenisation #historia #storia #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #gesuiti #jezuieten #africa #asia #globalhistory #globalchristianity #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus @vaticannews

Feet that walk, hearts that see In the Summer of 2018, Rinald D’Souza SJ undertook the Camino Ignaciano — an Ignatian pilgrimage that traverses history, culture and spirituality through some of the most beautiful regions of Spain. The pilgrimage is walked with one’s feet, but takes a heart — as much as a mind — to see the world and journey with it. Along the Camino Ignaciano, one is led to gaze at the friezes of the many churches one encounters along the way. This detail from the twelfth-century romanesque Church of San Bartolomé in Logroño depicts scenes from the life of Christ as well as of the saint. Though it has been through much transformation and decay, it remains a timeless beauty. In this post, Rinald reflects on his journey with his lens. Journey along with this photo story at historiadomus.net/portfolio/feet-that-walk-hearts-that-see Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Rinald D’Souza, 2018 #historiadomus #logrono #larioja #LaRiojaApetece #historia #espana #spain #camino #caminoignaciano #caminodesantiago #romanesque #jesuithistory #jesuits #societyofjesus #history #heritage #architecture #christianity #faith #storia #histoire #geschiedenis #travel #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #gesuiti #jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus @lariojaturismo

Walking the Camino Ignaciano The Camino Ignaciano is an Ignatian pilgrimage that recreates the sixteenth-century historical route (1522) of Ignatius of Loyola from his hometown in Azpeitia to the cave in Manresa where he underwent a transformative experience and wrote his classic, The Spiritual Exercises. Rinald D’Souza SJ reflects on his experience of walking the Camino. Continue reading this story at historiadomus.net/2018/08/19/walking-the-camino-ignaciano Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Rinald D’Souza, 2018 #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #societyofjesus #manresa #history #caminoignaciano #caminodesantiago #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #spain #christianity #faith #espana #camino #ignatiusofloyola #storia #histoire #geschichte #geschiedenis #montserrat #travel #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #gesuiti #jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

Contemplating Film: Making my first prints Last week, I made my first set of black and white photographic prints that were shot on film over the weekend. The results have been more than satisfying not only for what gradually emerged on paper in the darkroom, but for the photographic process itself. While my interest in photography grew from a fascination for images, my engagement with photographic processes had more to do with being a historian who was looking for sources. And what a happy meeting point between the two! But for now, let me dwell on the photographic process. Continue reading at historiadomus.net/portfolio/contemplating-film-making-my-first-prints Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Rinald D’Souza, 2018 #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #photography #analogue #analogphotography #walterbenjamin #theworkofartintheageofmechanicalreproduction #aura #fineart #beauty #landscape #history #film #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #contemplation #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza #leuven #kruidtuin #hortusbotanicuslovaniensis @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

The Making of a Poor Saint: Oscar Romero Much before the announcement of Pope Francis to canonise Oscar Romero a Saint of the Catholic Church, the people of Latin America had already begun to venerate their San Romero, ever since his martyrdom on 24 March 1980. His witness to the gospel message that informed a faith in favour of the poor is as relevant to us today as it was in his own lifetime. Find out more about “The Making of a Poor Saint: Oscar Romero” at historiadomus.net/2018/10/13/the-making-of-a-poor-saint-oscar-romero Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Franco Folini, 2003 | Flickr #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #oscarromero #sanromero #rutiliogrande #elsalvador #biography #sansalvador #painting #mural #preferentialoptionforthepoor #faithandjustice #societyofjesus #ihs #history #liberationtheology #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #latinamerica #christianity #histories #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

The Jesuit missionary Rodolfo Acquaviva SJ (1550-1583), and his translator companion, Francisco Henriques SJ, hold theological discussions at the Ibadat Khana (House of Worship) gathering of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar (1556-1605), within his palace at Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra. The illustration is a miniature painting made by Nar Singh and was adorned within the Akbarnama (The Book of Akbar). The Akbarnama is the official biography of Akbar authored by the court historian, Abu'l-Fazl (1551-1602). Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet Image Source: Akbarnama | Chester Beatty Library | Wikimedia Commons #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #akbar #akbarnama #mughal #mughalindia #biography #bookhistory #painting #miniature #miniaturepainting #fineart #societyofjesus #ihs #history #globalhistory #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #southasia #christianity #histories #histoire #geschiedenis #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

Welcome to the Historia Domus. Historia Domus explores Jesuit history from a South Asian perspective. It does so through the dialectic of faith and reason which is at the core of Jesuit engagement with the world. While Historia Domus has been understood as a “house history” of a specific Jesuit community, it is here reinvented for the web to reflect on Jesuit histories that could be seen as interconnected Jesuit global histories. And as far as the web remains interconnected its dynamic should enhance our interconnected engagement. Although writings on this site would eventually reveal a South Asian perspective, they make the world their domus, their home. Read more at historiadomus.net Follow us at facebook.com/historiadomusnet #historiadomus #jesuithistory #jesuits #societyofjesus #ihs #history #globalhistory #historia #heritage #culturalheritage #southasia #christianity #faith #reason #faithandreason #histories #storia #histoire #geschichte #geschiedenis #faithandjustice #commongood #preferentialoptionforthepoor #jesuit #jesuitas #jesuites #jesuiten #gesuiti #jezuieten #rinalddsouza @rinalddsouza @historiadomus

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