American Jesuits and the World : : How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global / / John T. McGreevy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016
• VerfasserIn: McGreevy, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 18 halftones. 1 table. 2 maps.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1. Nineteenth- Century Jesuits and their critics
• 2. Ellsworth, Maine: Education and Religious Liberty
• 3. Westphalia, Missouri: Nation
• 4. Grand Couteau, Louisiana: Miracle
• 5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Americans
• 6. Manila, Philippines: Empire
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations Used in the Notes
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index