Father of My Soul: Reason and Affect in a Shipboard Conversion Narrative
In 1768, a young Swedish Lutheran, inspired by Voltaire, took up life as a merchant to learn more about the world and to find “true religion” based upon reason. When he boarded a ship to Corsica, his travelling companions were two hundred Mexican Jesuits recently expelled from the Americas. In close...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 641-658 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
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Lorenzo Ignazio Thjülen
Manuel Mariano (Emmanuele) de Iturriaga
ex-Jesuit
expulsion
conversion
affect
conatus
religious friendship
homo-sociability
Enlightenment Catholicism
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| Summary: | In 1768, a young Swedish Lutheran, inspired by Voltaire, took up life as a merchant to learn more about the world and to find “true religion” based upon reason. When he boarded a ship to Corsica, his travelling companions were two hundred Mexican Jesuits recently expelled from the Americas. In close confines with these members of the Society of Jesus for the duration of his five-week journey, Thjülen chose to convert to Catholicism and, shortly after arriving in Italy, he became a Jesuit. This essay explores the nature of his conversion, utilizing affect theory to argue that he converted less to Catholicism than to the Society of Jesus, or—more precisely—Thjülen converted to remain in proximity to a particular Mexican Jesuit named Manuel Mariano (Emmanuele) de Iturriaga. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00204006 |