The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-85731-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Religion

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 2008 Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worcester, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Thomas Worcester; Part I. Ignatius of Loyola: 1. The religious milieu of the young Ignatius Lu Ann Homza; 2. Five personae of Ignatius of Loyola J. Carlos Coupeau; 3. The spiritual exercises Philip Endean; Part II. European Foundations of the Jesuits: 4. Jesuit Rome and Italy Paul Murphy; 5. The society of Jesus in the three kingdoms Thomas McCoog; 6. Jesuit dependence on the French monarchy Thomas Worcester; 7. Women Jesuits? Gemma Simmonds; 8. Jesuits in Poland and Eastern Europe Stanislaw Obirek; Part III. Geographic and Ethnic Frontiers: 9. The Jesuit enterprise in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan M. Antoni J. Üçerler; 10. Jesuits in China Nicolas Standaert; 11. The Jesuits in New France Jacques Monet; 12. Racial and ethnic minorities in the Society of Jesus Thomas Cohen; Part IV. Arts and Sciences: 13. Jesuit architecture in colonial Latin America Gauvin Alexander Bailey; 14. The Jesuits and the quiet side of scientific revolution Louis Caruana; Part V. Jesuits in the Modern World: 15. The suppression and restoration Jonathan Wright; 16. Jesuit schools in the USA, 1814–ca.1970 Gerald McKevitt; 17. Jesuit theological discourse since Vatican II Mary Ann Hinsdale; 18. Jesuits today Thomas Worcester.

Über Autor(innen)

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