
Revd Professor Patrick Goujon, SJ
About
Patrick Goujon graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in French Literature. He has a doctorate in Theology (Facultés Loyola Paris – Jesuit College of Theology and Philosophy) and in History (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), and a habilitation in French Literature (Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle). He is Professor in Theology and History of Spirituality at Facultés Loyola Paris and Associate Member at Centre d’Etudes en Sciences Sociales du Religieux – EHESS). He is also Editor in Chief of Recherches de Science Religieuse.
History of Jesuit spirituality; cultural studies (early modern time); history of spiritual direction
Precarious. A Survivor of Clerical Abuse Remembers, 2023, Georgetown University Press (translated in several other languages)
Les Politiques de l’âme (Jesuit Spiritual Direction in Early Modern France), Editions Garnier, 2019
Counsels of the Holy Spirit. A Reading of Saint Ignatius’s Letters, 2021, Messenger (Original in French, Translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese)