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Comunicare la fede. Strumenti e strategie. La compagnia di Gesù nel Perù del XVI secolo
No full textKatrin Keller, Erzherzogin Maria von Innerösterreich (1551-1608). Zwischen Habsburg und Wittelsbach
No full textFrom Ship to Shore: Food, Drink, and Cultural Encounter in Gregorio Mengarini’s Flathead Nineteenth-Century Mission
Full text linkThis study examines the experiences of the Jesuit missionary Gregorio Mengarini among the Flathead people in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the practices of eating and the reasons for dietary changes in several different contexts. Drawing on Mengarini’s vocation and the shared cultural significance of food, the essay examines historical sources documenting his journey. The travels of Mengarini and his companions, both from Europe to the United States and within the US, highlight the challenges of hunger and dietary restrictions. The Jesuit mission with the Flathead people aimed to establish subsistence agriculture, which often clashed with the local food culture rooted in practices such as root gathering and buffalo hunting. These cultural differences presented considerable difficulties for the Catholic missionaries in adapting. Mengarini’s narrative also highlights the arduous conditions the Jesuits faced in the Rocky Mountains, including hunger and travel-related dangers. The article concludes with the eventual demise of the Flathead Mission, emphasizing the challenges associated with introducing a new way of life to indigenous communities. This study offers a nuanced perspective on cross-cultural interactions, subsistence strategies, and the limitations of missionary efforts in transforming traditional ways of life
Tramandare una memoria scelta: le cronache dei Collegi gesuitici. Il caso goriziano nel contesto austriaco
No full textLa «Patchwork Religion» in prospettiva storica. Wovoka e la «Ghost Dance» del 1890
Full text linkThe social sciences have recognized in contemporary Western societies the existence of the «Patchwork Religion», a trend towards the construction of a spiritual experience characterized by the coexistence of elements from different religious traditions, exoteric and spiritual movements. The patchwork idea focuses on the centrality of the individual, who – more or less consciously – chooses to tap into different traditions to build a religious sensibility. History has not yet thoroughly taken into account the category of «Patchwork Religion». On the contrary, it has explored the concept of syncretism, as presence in a religious belief of mythic elements, organization and rituals from different traditions, mainly on collective experiences. Our goal is to propose a case study to explore the heuristic potential of the category «Patchwork Religion» in a historical research. The 1890 Ghost Dance and the teaching of the Northern Paiute Prophet Wovoka contain all the elements that permit its inclusion in the category: the revelation to an individual, the prophetic dimension, and the coexistence of different religious traditions (principally Paiute, Christian, Lakota) in a single message
Ivresse et gourmandise dans la culture missionnaire jésuite. Entre bière et maté (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
No full textReformation polemicists denounced Catholic food rules that condemned gluttony and drunkenness and disciplined the ecclesiastical fasting. These accusations led Catholic missionaries in Europe or in the New World to pay particular attention to the need for sobriety and moderation at the table and to export their own convictions to the Americas. The food of the other, such as the yerba mate, a drink widespread among the Guarani of Paraguay, aroused their mistrust. However, the attempt to change traditional eating habits was often unsuccessful, as evidenced by the crucial role played by mate in the history of taste, culture and economy in Jesuit missions in Paraguay
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