American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
By (Author) John T. McGreevy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
21st January 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Religious communities and monasticism
Religious mission and Religious Conversion
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
271.53073
Physical Properties
Paperback
328
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the world 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 an
Reviews
This book is a sensational eye-opener, even for me, a Jesuit for the past forty-six years. [An] extraordinarily rewarding work.James F. Keenan, Commonweal
Deeply learned and delightfully readable.Catherine ODonnell, Los Angeles Review of Books
Stunning in the breadth and depth of its international contextualization.Robert Emmett Curran, America
McGreevy explains the twists and turns of [Jesuit] history and dissolves the apparent paradoxes.Patrick Allitt, Weekly Standard
Author Bio
John T. McGreevy is dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
