Main entry:

Worcester, Thomas, editor.

Title & Author:

The Cambridge companion to the Jesuits / edited by Thomas Worcester.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Description:

xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-335) and index.
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 V. Murphy -- 5. The Society of Jesus in the Three Kingdoms / Thomas M. 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 M. Cohen -- Part IV. Arts and Sciences: -- 13. Jesuit architecture in colonial Latin America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- 14. The Jesuits and the quiet side of the 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-c. 1970 / Gerald McKevitt -- 17. Jesuit theological discourse since Vatican II / Mary Ann Hinsdale -- 18. Jesuits today / Thomas Worcester.

Summary:

"This Companion explores the religious and cultural significance of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540. Known as the Jesuits, their members played an extremely important role as educators and priests in the era after the Reformation, and as missionaries in many parts of the world. This volume focuses principally on the period up to 1773 when Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order, but also gives attention to what the Jesuits have done since their restoration by Pope Pius VII in 1814"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780521857314 (hbk.)
0521857317 (hbk.)
9780521673969 (pbk.)
0521673968 (pbk.)

Subject:

Jesuits History.
Jesuits
Jesuiten
Jesuiter historia.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Worcester, Thomas
Cambridge companions to religion.

Jesuits
Companion to the Jesuits

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260646
Call No.: BIB 191557
Notes: hbk.
Status: Available