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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

by John McGreevy

  • Paperback
  • 328 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • 14.6 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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For history lovers and students of global faith

Explains the resurgence of the Jesuits in the 1800s

Helps you understand the roots of modern Catholicism

Discover how the Jesuits transformed from an embattled order into a global force that helped shape modern Catholicism.

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At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church's expansion around the world. This book traces this nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American Jesuits in Manila. These stories reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.
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  • Title

    American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

  • Author

    John McGreevy

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Princeton University Press

  • Published

    November 2018

  • Weight

    436g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    14.6 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780691183107

  • ISBN-10

    0691183104

  • Eden Code

    4685752

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