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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
American Jesuits and the World How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
Author: John T. McGreevy
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 w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691171623
ISBN-10: 0691171629
Publication Date: 5/31/2016
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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