We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

* 1534 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )

Western casuistry dates from Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), yet the zenith of casuistry was from 1550 to 1650, when the Society of Jesus used case-based reasoning, particularly in administering the Sacrament of Penance ( or " confession ").

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

* The Goa Jesuit Province of the Society of Jesus: The Jesuits in Goa

The Genealogical Society of Utah, founded in 1894, later became the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ).

He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was distinguished for his knowledge of mathematics and theology.

He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the East.

* Chancey, Mark A., Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 ) ( Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 134 ).

Ignatius Loyola acknowledged that Cardinal Contarini was largely responsible for the papal approbation of the Society of Jesus, on September 27, 1540.

* 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss missionary, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1892 )

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China.

The Society of Jesus (, S. J., SJ or SI ) is a Christian male religious order that follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

The opening lines of this founding document would declare that the Society of Jesus was founded to " strive especially for the propagation and defense of the faith and progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine.

The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás.

* 1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed ;

* 1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1942 )

The " Black Pope " is a name that was popularly, but unofficially, given to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus due to the Jesuits ' importance within the Church.

During the next 200 years, the Roman Catholic Church, especially the ascetic members of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), influenced the colony more strongly than the governors who succeeded Irala.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

The photographs became public in mid-1919, after Elsie's mother attended a meeting of the Theosophical Society in Bradford.

A new Leaving Certificate exam subject with the working title ' Politics & Society ' is being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA ) and is expected to be introduced to the curriculum sometime after 2012.

( 1982 ), " The resettlement of England after the Barons ' War ", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser.

He was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and after 1816 served as its President.

Peter Lewis Allen writes that his views caused outrage — or, rather, his public expression of them did — and Brown died penniless after being expelled from the Obstetrical Society.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1823, and the largest crater in the Moon's Mare Serenitatis is named Bessel after him.

Informal discussions with colleagues and friends stimulated a greater interest, which was reinforced by Friedrich Hayek's powerful book The Road to Serfdom, by my attendance at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and by discussions with Hayek after he joined the university faculty in 1950.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

Ackerman was an early member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League, and became so active in and important to the club, that in essence he ran it, including after the name change the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a prominent regional organization, as well as the National Fantasy Fan Federation ( N3F ).

Also named after him and his son is George Stephenson High School in Killingworth, Stephenson Memorial Primary School in Howdon, the Stephenson Railway Museum in North Shields and the Stephenson Locomotive Society.

A film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, was created after the anime series and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, premiering on the SKY Perfect satellite television network on September 1, 2006.

Rapp let newcomers into the Society and, after a trial period, usually about a year, they were accepted as permanent members.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

By then, the work consisted of four books of eighty chapters, and each book was named after statements from the creed: Book 1 on God the Creator, Book 2 on the Redeemer in Christ, Book 3 on receiving the Grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and Book 4 on the Society of Christ or the Church.

Non-relatives attending the funeral included three communist associates of Marx: Friedrich Lessner, imprisoned for three years after the Cologne communist trial of 1852 ; G. Lochner, whom Engels described as " an old member of the Communist League "; and Carl Schorlemmer, a professor of chemistry in Manchester, a member of the Royal Society, and a communist activist involved in the 1848 Baden revolution.

The Blue Shirts Society, a fascist paramilitary organization within the Kuomintang modeled after Mussolini's blackshirts, was anti-foreign and anticommunist, and stated that its agenda was to expel foreign ( Japanese and Western ) imperialists from China, crush Communism, and eliminate feudalism.

However, after entering the academic profession she rejected religion, gaining a reputation amongst other members of the Folklore Society as a noted sceptic and a rationalist.

Finally, in 1879, after two years ' negotiating by Sweet, Furnivall, and Murray, the OUP agreed to publish the dictionary and to pay the editor, Murray, who was also the Philological Society president.

Faced with the controversy, the Committee of the Highland Society enquired after the authenticity of Macpherson's supposed original.

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.