American Jesuits and the world : how an embattled religious order made modern Catholicism global / J...
American Jesuits and the world : how an embattled religious order made modern Catholicism global / J...
American Jesuits and the world : how an embattled religious order made modern Catholicism global / John T. McGreevy.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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G 2017/5638
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English
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viii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Nineteenth-century Jesuits and their critics -- Ellsworth, Maine: Education and religious liberty -- Westphalia, Missouri: Nation -- Grand Couteau, Louisiana: Miracle -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Americans -- Manila, Philippines: Empire.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2016]
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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 worl...
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American Jesuits and the world : how an embattled religious order made modern Catholicism global / John T. McGreevy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-295) and index.
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G 2017/5638
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74VKVgyXR56y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyXR56y
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ISBN
0691171629 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780691171623 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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271.5302
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991024148710502626
