THE JESUITS AND THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN CULTURES

Andrea Benso, missionary among the Sioux Indians in a reservation in South Dakota; Marina Massimi, professor in the Department of Psychology and Education of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of Sao Paulo; M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, Boston College. Introduced by Andrea D’Auria, director of the International Center for Communion and Liberation. Moderated by Emanuele Colombo, professor at the Lynch School of Education and researcher at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (Boston College)

Since the mid-sixteenth century, the Jesuits brought the Gospel to the ends of the earth, in distant lands and cultures. The encounter explores the missions in Japan, in the footsteps of Francis Xavier, the innovative experiment of coexistence with the Guaraní in the reductions of Paraguay, and the presence of the Jesuits in the plains of South Dakota, where they encountered the world of the Sioux. Stories of encounters between cultures and of evangelization.