Home > Catalogo > Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale > 53 | 2019 > Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo
cover
cover

Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo

Franco Motta    Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia    

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

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.

Pubblicato
26 Settembre 2019
Accettato
20 Aprile 2019
Presentato
05 Aprile 2019
Lingua
IT

Keywords: Religious debateCatholic theologySociety of JesusCounter-ReformationRelationships between Church and State

Copyright: © 2019 Franco Motta. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.