Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits

Name: Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits
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ISBN: 9780521673969

ISBN-10: 0521673968

ISBN-13: 9780521673969

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas Worcester

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Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.86" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Thomas Worcester is Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA.



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Introduction




Ignatius of Loyola



The religious milieu of the young Ignatius




Five personae of Ignatius of Loyola




The Spiritual Exercises




European Foundations of the Jesuits



Jesuit Rome and Italy




The Society of Jesus in the Three Kingdoms




Jesuit dependence on the French monarchy




Women Jesuits?




Jesuits in Poland and eastern Europe




Geographic and Ethnic Frontiers



The Jesuit enterprise in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan




Jesuits in China




The Jesuits in New France




Racial and ethnic minorities in the Society of Jesus




Arts and Sciences



Jesuit architecture in colonial Latin America




The Jesuits and the quiet side of the scientific revolution




Jesuits in the Modern World



The Suppression and Restoration




Jesuit schools in the USA, 1814-c. 1970




Jesuit theological discourse since Vatican II




Jesuits today



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Index