Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines
re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group
of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss
the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its
suppression by papal edict). This meeting led to the creation of
the first volume in this series, The Jesuits, which examined the
worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art,
architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy,
natural history, public performance, and education, with special
attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures.
This second volume, following a second conference in 2002,
continues in a similar path as its predecessor, complementing the
regional coverage with contributions on the Flemish and Iberian
provinces, on the missions in Japan, and in post-Suppression Russia
and the United States. The performing arts, like theatre and music,
are broadly treated, and, in addition to continued attention to
painting and architecture, the volume contains essays on a range of
objets d'art, including statuary, reliquaries, and alter pieces -
as well as on gardens, mechanical clocks, and related automata.
Other themes include finances, natural theology, censorship within
the Jesuit order, and the Society's relationship to women. Perhaps
most important, the volume gives particular attention to the
eighteenth century, the 'age of disasters' for the Jesuits - the
negative papal ruling on Chinese Rites, the destruction the of
Paraguay Reductions, and the suppressions of the order that began
in Portugal and that culminated in the general Suppression of 1773.
With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen
different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious
tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to
religious memory.
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