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

by John T. McGreevy and John T McGreevy

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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...

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"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality

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