Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States: Faith, Conflict, Adaptation
From Eusebio Kino to Daniel Berrigan, and from colonial New England to contemporary Seattle, Jesuits have built and disrupted institutions in ways that have fundamentally shaped the Catholic Church and American society. As Catherine O’Donnell demonstrates, Jesuits in French, Spanish, and British col...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Brill research perspectives in Jesuit studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-112 |
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American colonies
B Society of Jesus B Catholic Schools B Jesuit slaveholding B United States B John Carroll B Catholic higher education B Pierre-Jean De Smet B Vatican II B Jesuits |
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| Summary: | From Eusebio Kino to Daniel Berrigan, and from colonial New England to contemporary Seattle, Jesuits have built and disrupted institutions in ways that have fundamentally shaped the Catholic Church and American society. As Catherine O’Donnell demonstrates, Jesuits in French, Spanish, and British colonies were both evangelists and agents of empire. John Carroll envisioned an American church integrated with Protestant neighbors during the early years of the republic; nineteenth-century Jesuits, many of them immigrants, rejected Carroll’s ethos and created a distinct Catholic infrastructure of schools, colleges, and allegiances. The twentieth century involved Jesuits first in American war efforts and papal critiques of modernity, and then (in accord with the leadership of John Courtney Murray and Pedro Arrupe) in a rethinking of their relationship to modernity, to other faiths, and to earthly injustice. O’Donnell’s narrative concludes with a brief discussion of Jesuits’ declining numbers, as well as their response to their slaveholding past and involvement in clerical sexual abuse. |
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| ISSN: | 2589-7454 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25897454-12340006 |