The Jesuit Community of the Lithuanian Province: Between Local Crises and Global Changes

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Journal of Jesuit Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-06 DOI:10.1163/22141332-10020006

A. Mariani

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The paper analyzes the community of the Lithuanian province of the Society of Jesus between 1608 and 1773. It adopts a prosopographical approach based on the full set of the order’s personnel catalogs for the Lithuanian and Masovian provinces, which have been analyzed by means of RStudio, an integrated development environment based on the R programming language. The author focuses on the total number of Jesuits in the province, their religious or secular status, final vows, education, regional distribution, and geographic origin. In the long term, changes mainly depended on local factors such as the cultural assimilation of the inhabitants of the eastern territories marked by the influence of the Orthodox Church. In the short term, wars and epidemics also played an important role. However, some of the trends in the Lithuanian province, such as the number of professed of the four vows, which increased due to the larger availability of theological courses during religious formation, were similar to those in other administrative units of the Society. Overall, the article demonstrates that the seventeenth-century crises had a profound impact on the Jesuit community both in terms of numbers and internal structure.

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立陶宛省耶稣会团体:在地方危机与全球变化之间

本文分析了1608年至1773年间立陶宛耶稣会省的社区。它采用了一种基于立陶宛和马索维安省的全套订单人员目录的亲社会方法，这些目录已通过RStudio进行了分析，RStudion是一个基于R编程语言的集成开发环境。作者重点介绍了该省耶稣会士的总数、他们的宗教或世俗地位、最终誓言、教育、地区分布和地理起源。从长远来看，变化主要取决于当地因素，如东正教影响下东部地区居民的文化同化。在短期内，战争和流行病也发挥了重要作用。然而，立陶宛省的一些趋势，如由于在宗教形成期间提供了更多的神学课程，四项誓言的公开人数有所增加，与协会其他行政单位的趋势相似。总的来说，这篇文章表明，17世纪的危机对耶稣会社区产生了深远的影响，无论是在数量上还是在内部结构上。

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期刊介绍： This is a full Open Access journal. All articles are available for free from the moment of publication and authors do not pay an article publication charge. The Journal of Jesuit Studies (JJS) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to the study of Jesuit history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. It welcomes articles on all aspects of the Jesuit past and present including, but not limited to, the Jesuit role in the arts and sciences, theology, philosophy, mission, literature, and interreligious/inter-cultural encounters. In its themed issues the JJS highlights studies with a given topical, chronological or geographical focus. In addition there are two open-topic issues per year. The journal publishes a significant number of book reviews as well. One of the key tasks of the JJS is to relate episodes in Jesuit history, particularly those which have suffered from scholarly neglect, to broader trends in global history over the past five centuries. The journal also aims to bring the highest quality non-Anglophone scholarship to an English-speaking audience by means of translated original articles.