American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

by John T. McGreevy and John T McGreevy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171629
• ISBN13: 9780691171623
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"