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American Jesuits and the World - How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (Hardcover)
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American Jesuits and the World - How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (Hardcover)
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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. In the United States especially,
foreign-born Jesuits built universities and schools, aided Catholic
immigrants, and served as missionaries. 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 place the Jesuits at the center of
the worldwide clash between Catholics and liberal nationalists, and
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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