God's Soldiers Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History of the Jesuits

Name: God's Soldiers Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History of the Jesuits
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ISBN: 9780385500784

ISBN-10: 0385500785

ISBN-13: 9780385500784

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jonathan Wright

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Throughout history members of the Society of Jesus, popularly known as Jesuits, have been accused of killing kings and presidents, have traveled as missionaries to every corner of the globe, founded haciendas in Mexico, explored the Mississippi and Amazon rivers, and served Chinese emperors as map makers, painters, and astronomers. As well as the predictable roll call of saints and martyrs, the Society can also lay claim to the thirty-five craters on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. Jesuits have been despised and idolized on a scale unknown to members of any other religious order; they have died the most horrible deaths and done the most outlandish deeds. Whether loved or loathed, the…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/18/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction : the afterlife of Francis Xavier


"New athletes to combat God's enemies" : Jesuits and reformations


"One world is not enough" : the first Jesuit century


"Over many vast worlds of water" : the Jesuit missionary enterprise


"Sometimes sweetly, sometimes with the sword" : missionary methods


"Rhapsodies of calumny" : the creation of the anti-Jesuit myth


"The Jesuit is not more" : enlightenment and suppression


"Still on a million tongues" : Jesuits since 1814


The fifth Jesuit century