The Society of Jesus and missionary experience in the 16th century. Religious conversion among Slaves, Moriscos and América

Abstract

The article presents a general analysis about the topic the mission in the Society of Jesus and its implementation among the Moriscos of Granada, the slaves who transited through Seville and the first missionary development in America in the last decades of the 16th century. The main interest will be to attend to the formulations and pronouncements that led to work of evangelization and religious conversion. The three scenarios place us between the discussions around the organization and consolidation of the Society of Jesus, the opening to new Christians and the confessionalization in the Hispanic Monarchy. Through the postulates of global history, the three scenarios will be connected to address them as linking experiences that allowed outlining a profile of the Jesuit missionary formed between the postulates of primitive Ignatianism and the Hispanic Catholic Renewal.