From Piotr Skarga (1536–1612) to Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), or from triumphalism to participation

Abstract

Jesuits are known for their fidelity toward papacy. This article suggest regarding the history of this religious order through the life and the activities of two of its members. One is well known in Polish history, the court preacher Piotr Skarga in the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century in Poland and the other is the French Jesuit Michel de Certeau from the 20th century, a cultural anthropologist who suggested a new method to describe the historical impact of Catholicism in general, and the Jesuit Order in particular, on world cultures.

Keywords

• jezuici
• papiestwo
• ideologia
• historiografia
• antropologia kultury