Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions
This roundtable will examine the functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America – to compare the devotional, social, and sometimes political significance that sacred objects acquired in different geographical and cultural circumstances. The event will feature an exhibit of relics and sacramental objects from the Boston College Burns Library’s Liturgy and Life Collection, a unique collection of historical devotional materials donated by Catholic communities across the United States.
Friday, April 26th, 2019
Fine Print Room
Burns Library, Boston College
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
| Speakers |
| Laura Masur – Boston University
Sacred Objects in the Archaeological Record of the Maryland Mission Eugenio Menegon – Boston University Healing and Converting: The Power of Sacred Objects in the China Jesuit Mission Aislinn Muller – Boston College Sacramentals, Dissent, and Resistance in Jesuit Missions to Early Modern England Chair and Respondent James O’Toole – Boston College |