The Jesuits

ISBN 10: 0802042872 / ISBN 13: 9780802042873

Published by University of Toronto Press, 1999

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An astounding history of the accomplishments of the Society of Jesus, from painting and poetry to cartography and physics, from Europe to New France to China. Editor(s): O'Malley, John W.; Harris, Steven J.; Bailey, Gauvin Alexander; Kennedy, T. Frank, S.J. Num Pages: 872 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; AC; HRCC2; HRCC7; HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1440. . 1999. 74th Revised edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jesuits
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802042872
• ISBN 13: 9780802042873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the importance of the Society in many sectors, including those related to the sciences and the arts. They have also looked at the Jesuits as emblematic of certain traits of early modern Europeans, especially as those Europeans interacted with 'the Other' in Asia and the Americas.

Originating in an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, the thirty-five essays here reflect this new historiographical trend. Focusing on the Old Society- the Society before its suppression in 1773 by papal edict- they examine the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, and they give special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures, in North and South America, China, India, and the Philippines. A picture emerges not only of the individual Jesuit, who might be missionary, diplomat, architect, and playwright over the course of his life in the Society, but also of the immense and many-faceted Jesuit enterprise as forming a kind of 'cultural ecosystem'.

The Jesuits of the Old Society liked to think they had a way of proceeding special to themselves. The question, Was there a Jesuit style, a Jesuit corporate culture? is the thread that runs through this interdisciplinary collection of studies.

About the Author

John W. O'Malley, S.J., is professor in the Department of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University. Steven J. Harris is a professor at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College. T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. is a professor in and chair of the Department of Music at Boston College.