Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 53 | 2019
Research Article | Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo
Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo
Abstract
The category of ‘Jesuitism’ must be counted among the most long-standing and blurred concepts in the political-religious debate of modern and contemporary Europe. Used both as a polemic and historiographical category – that is, describing doctrines and practices attributed to the Jesuits by their adversaries, but also their own historical features – it sums up different and often incongruous traits, mainly pertaining to the sphere of the power relationships between the Church and the State. Even if Jesuitism must be primarily considered as a myth shaped by the anti-Jesuits in different historical contexts, nonetheless it is possible to identify in it some original elements and trace them back to the late 16th century.
Submitted: April 5, 2019 | Accepted: April 20, 2019 | Published Sept. 26, 2019 | Language: it
Keywords Counter-Reformation • Society of Jesus • Catholic theology • Relationships between Church and State • Religious debate
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2019/01/004
