The essay traces the salient historical steps of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting its genesis and development up to the year of its suppression (1668). The focus is on the dynamics triggered by the born of the Jesuat congregation, who grew on the border between the “church of the religious” and the “church of the laity”, and on the use of intellectual energies of the Jesuat friars, because they were directed towards defining and safeguarding their own religious identity. The latter had two focal points: the example of Giovanni Colombini, its first “father”, and, at the same time, the defence of the autonomy necessary to move interstitially between institutions, groups and movements. The historical parable of the Jesuats, in fact, clearly shows the importance assumed by the network of social relations for the constitution of the movement and for its progressive normalisation.
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Chapter Title
Le vestigia dei gesuati
Authors
Isabella Gagliardi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7.04
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Le vestigia dei gesuati
Book Subtitle
L’eredità culturale del Colombini e dei suoi seguaci
Editors
Isabella Gagliardi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
384
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-227-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-228-7
Series Title
Fragmentaria. Studi di storia culturale e antropologia religiosa
Series ISSN
2975-1217
Series E-ISSN
2975-1225