The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist
The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist

Author: Éva Petrás

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2023-12-20

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9633867193

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The life of Töhötöm Nagy (1908–1979), Jesuit, Mason, and secret service agent, offers fascinating insights into interwar Hungary, the Catholic Church and Vatican diplomacy, Freemasonry, and the activities of communist state security service. As a young Jesuit Nagy was one of the leaders of a successful Catholic youth movement in interwar Hungary. After World War II he played an important role acting as an intermediary between the Vatican, the Red Army, and the Hungarian Catholic Church. After being sent to South America, he was attracted by liberation theology, but left the Society of Jesus, joined the Freemasons, and did social and philanthropic work in the slums of Buenos Aires. However, in the late 1960s he agreed to work for the Hungarian state security service in return for his repatriation. This latter period is reconstructed from the files of the Historical Archives of State Security in Budapest. Éva Petrás writes with empathy but with a sense of distance of the courage and restless energy of her subject. Her discussion of the limits of free choice and Nagy’s intense struggle to live a meaningful life make this biography breathtaking.

The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation

Author: Paul Shore

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9004423370

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The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.

Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism
Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism

Author: Björn Bentlage

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9004329005

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This sourcebook offers rare insights into a formative period in the modern history of religions. Throughout the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when commercial, political and cultural contacts intensified worldwide, politics and religions became ever more entangled. This volume offers a wide range of translated source texts from all over Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, thereby diminishing the difficulty of having to handle the plurality of involved languages and backgrounds. The ways in which the original authors, some prominent and others little known, thought about their own religion, its place in the world and its relation to other religions, allows for much needed insight into the shared and analogous challenges of an age dominated by imperialism and colonialism.

Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I

Author: Leo Lyon Zagami

Publisher: CCC Publishing

Published: 2015-11-11

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1888729600

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In English for the first time, a guide to the true secret structure of the Illuminati and their invisible network made of various power structures, author Leo Lyon Zagami uses their internal documents and reveals confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies—just as those inside the most prestigious U.S. universities such as Yale or Harvard—have always been guides to the occult. From the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)'s infiltration of Freemasonry to the real Priory of Sion, this book exposes not only the hidden structure of the New World Order and the occult practices but also their connections to the intelligence community and the infamous Ur-Lodges.

Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

Author: Per Pippin Aspaas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 9004416838

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The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.

ThirdWay
ThirdWay

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Publisher:

Published: 1997-06

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.