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Jesuit Missions and Encounters Between Cultures

The encounter between cultures is never a neutral fact, nor a mere exchange of forms or ideas. It is a human event, a living happening that engages the gaze and the freedom of both the one who encounters and the one who is encountered. The missions of the Society of Jesus — between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century — tell precisely of this kind of encounter, one capable of transforming those who live it. The experience of the Jesuits bears witness to a Christianity lived not as an idea to be translated or a system to be applied, but as a new culture born from the encounter with Christ. And precisely because it is a living culture, it enters into relationship with other cultures not to annul them but to fulfill them, to give them value, to transfigure them.

Exhibition produced by Fondazione Meeting per l’amicizia fra i popoli ETS

Curated by Francesco Cristellon, Davide Fiore, Francesco Foschi, Laura Galli, Elisabetta Ghezzi, Martin Greco, Luigi Ripamonti, Matilde Ripepi, Andrea Tommasi, Pietro Zancaner – students of History at the University of Milan.

In collaboration with Emanuele Colombo, Lynch School of Education and Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College; Alfredo Marra, Administrative Law, University of Milano-Bicocca; Marina Massimi, Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA), University of São Paulo, Brazil; Tommaso Piffer, Contemporary History, University of Udine; Pietro Silanos, Medieval History, University of Bari – Aldo Moro

Supported by Regione Emilia-Romagna