Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century

by Francis X. Clooney

Book Overview

In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the contributors to this volume explore the irreducible diversity of their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that shaped Jesuit institutions of higher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739114018
• ISBN13: 9780739114018
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"