{"id":3352,"date":"2007-01-20T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/jesuits-on-the-beeb.html"},"modified":"2007-01-20T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T16:58:06","slug":"jesuits-on-the-beeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/jesuits-on-the-beeb.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesuits on the Beeb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a reader (I forgot who!) who pointed us to this week’s edition of the BBC radio program In Our Time<\/a>, which this week concerns the Jesuits:<\/p>\n

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Today we\u2019re discussing the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order of priests who became known as \u201cthe school masters of Europe\u201d. Founded in the 16th<\/sup> century by the soldier Ignatius Loyola, they became a major force throughout the world, from China to South America. \u201cGive us a boy and we will return you a man, a citizen of his country and a child of God\u201d, they declared. By the 17th<\/sup> century there were more than 500 schools established across Europe. Their ideas about a standardised curriculum and teaching became the basis for many education systems today.<\/p>\n

They were also among the greatest patrons of art in early modern Europe, using murals and theatre to get their message across. However, their alleged influence over monarchs, their wealth and their adaptability to local customs abroad provoked suspicion, prompting their eventual suppression in the late 18th<\/sup> century. They were re-established in 1814 and now have more than twenty thousand members.<\/p>\n

So why was education so important to the Jesuit movement? How much influence did they really have in the courts of Europe and in the colonies? And were they really at the heart of conspiracies to murder kings?<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigel Aston<\/strong>, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester<\/p>\n

Simon Ditchfield<\/strong>, Reader in History at the University of York<\/p>\n

Dame Olwen Hufton<\/strong>, Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update:<\/u>  <\/em>I listened to the program today  – it was SJ101, a basic overview, with what I thought was a fascinating omission. Not one word about Jesuits in England. Not a syllable. <\/a> An uncomfortable topic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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