Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States : Faith, Conflict, Adaptation

The Resource Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States : Faith, Conflict, Adaptation
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Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States : Faith, Conflict, Adaptation
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Faith, Conflict, Adaptation
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by Catherine O'Donnell
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Faith, Conflict, Adaptation
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eng
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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non fiction
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  • Brill Research Perspectives
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