La Universidad Sofía y la iglesia de San Ignacio: Acercar a las personas y las culturas al Dios viviente

Lucia Santa-Ana Lozada; Perla Santa-Ana Lozada

doi:10.17979/aarc.2022.9.0.9349

Authors

Lucia Santa-Ana Lozada Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Perla Santa-Ana Lozada Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2022.9.0.9349

Keywords:

Jesuits, Japan, Cultural Exchange, Second Vatican Council, Sacred Architecture

Abstract

Since its foundation, the Society of Jesus has used education and dialogue between cultures as elements to achieve the integral development of the person, while at the same time spreading the Catholic faith. As a result of the application of these founding principles, the Jesuits establish Sophia University (Jochi Daigaku) in Japan, and are in charge of the Church of St. Ignatius, thus seeking through both the understanding of cultures and the diffusion of the principles of Catholicism in this country. A historical and cultural analysis of the Sophia University and the ecclesiastical complex that houses the church of St. Ignatius shows how the Society of Jesus has sought to spread the Catholic faith over time in countries with a culture different from that of the West and religious beliefs more deeply rooted than Catholicism, as is the case of Japan, taking advantage of significant elements for the country and for the order itself, such as openness to the world and the inclusion of elements of local cultures and traditions.

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Author Biographies

Lucia Santa-Ana Lozada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

He obtained the degree of Doctor from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the dissertation "Revolutionary School Architecture from Constitution to the construction of University City". She studied art at the University of California (Berkeley) and California State University. Full-time professor of the Master and Doctorate Program in Architecture at UNAM, The lines of research he develops are: Comparative Architecture: European-American-Mexican since 1920, Design of Educational Physical Infrastructure and History of Construction in Mexico in the XXth Century. He has participated as a lecturer and keynote speaker in different national and international symposia and conferences. He has published in national and foreign magazines such as Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies or THULE. Italian Rivista di studi americanistici.

Perla Santa-Ana Lozada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Civil Engineer from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Master and PhD in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM where she develops the research line History of construction in Mexico since the nineteenth century. She is a member of the Society of Architectura Historians, the Constructions History Society and the EERI.

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