Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640–1773)

Shore, Paul

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“…Thus, the history of the Jesuits in Hungary cannot be separated from the history of the province as a whole and must be studied in this context.4 This is not a new insight. Hungarian Jesuit historians working in exile (in particular László Lukács and László Szilas [1927-2012) pursued research that was very clearly done in this spirit.5…”

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2024

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For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 during the period of Ottoman conquest. Despite their difficulties in a war-torn country, a network of Jesuit colleges was established as part of the Austrian Province, and the eighteenth century was a period of cultural and scientific prosperity for the Jesuits in Hungary. The Suppression of 1773, however, abruptly suspended this tradition for eighty years. After they resettled in Hungary in 1853, the Jesuits searched for new ways of apostolic work. The independent Hungarian Jesuit Province was established in 1909. The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, however, posed fresh challenges. During the Communist period, the Hungarian Jesuit Province was forced to divide into two sections. The Jesuits in exile and those who remained in Hungary were reunited in 1990.

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“…18 Paulus Beke entered Crimean Tatary in 1644, and Joannes Grueber (1623-1680) traveled from Europe to China overland, passing through Muslim districts in a caravan. 19 At the Mughal court, Jesuits debated with Muslim scholars and introduced artistic themes derived from Catholic iconography. 20 In Indian monarchies where Muslims were numbered among the population Jesuits worked with intermediaries to bring about conversions, while in China Adam Schall von Bell feuded with Muslim astronomers at the imperial court.…”

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Contact, Confrontation, Accommodation: Jesuits and Islam, 1540-1770

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2015

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The encounter between Jesuits and Muslims in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had as a point of connection the shared engagement with the spoken and written word. But Jesuit efforts both to convert and to understand this "people of the Book" were hampered by the Jesuits' lack of deep theological understanding of Muslim sacred texts, and by the fact that this faith was not at a sufficient distance from the European Catholic heartland to receive the "longer view" that Jesuits could apply to the religious traditions of India and the Far East. The overstretched commitments of the Jesuits, and the European Society's emphasis on polemical strategies, which did not prove workable in predominantly Muslim cultures, significantly limited the successes of Jesuits seeking to convert Muslims. The modest gains Jesuits made in the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and in other Muslim societies nevertheless provided narratives of achievement, heroism, and sacrifice that added elements to Jesuit self-presentation and to the narrative of the Society's progress. Jesuit contacts with Islam continued during and after the Suppression and are still an aspect of the Society's program today.

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