American Jesuits And The World: How An Embattled Religious O

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Nombre: American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global - (L
Marca: Princeton University Press

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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 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.Críticas[A] fascinating new book. . . . Readers ofAmerican Jesuits and the World will meet a remarkably captivating cast of characters who, despite their obscurity today, enjoyed wide spheres of influence and forged a shared legacy with powerful contemporary resonance. They will also get a taste for why the Jesuits are so intriguing and why they will continue to be so important for the life of the church in the 21st century.---James P. McCartin, Catholic New WorldAn engaging analysis of how the Jesuits revived themselves and established Catholicism as a global enterprise. . . . McGreevy's investigation of issues including education, immigration, and nationalism is both important and timely. His book will be of great value to scholars and graduate students interested in the concept of freedom of religion in this era. . . . Overall, this book makes an important contribution to the field and is highly recommended.---Alison C. Fleming, HorizonsMcGreevy explains the twists and turns of [Jesuit] history and dissolves the apparent paradoxes.---Patrick Allitt, Weekly StandardProfessor McGreevy has not so much written about American Jesuits venturing out from their continent, but rather produced a series of quite fascinating vignettes of nineteenth-century European Jesuits. . . . Readers . . . will discover much about what it was like to be a nineteenth-century American Catholic parishioner, about religious prejudice in the States, and about anti-Jesuit feeling.---Michael Walsh, The TabletThere really ought to be better books about the American Jesuit experience, especially ones that move beyond educational case studies or the predictable crowd of well-travelled missionaries. In this panoramic and limpidly written study McGreevy sets a fine example.---Jonathan Wright, Catholic HeraldThis book is a sensational eye-opener, even for me, a Jesuit for the past forty-six years. While I knew the oft-quoted rough denunciations of the Jesuits by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, I had no idea of how deep and pervasive American anti-Jesuit sentiments were--nor why they were so extreme, nor how they were overcome--until I read McGreevy's splendid work. . . . Groundbreaking. . . . [An] extraordinarily rewarding work.---James F. Keenan, CommonwealWritten in an engaging style, McGreevy's book is the product of meticulo

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: McGreevy, John T
-Editorial: Princeton University Press
-N° Paginas: 328
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Titulo del libro: American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: McGreevy, John T
Fecha de publicación: 2016
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 328
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