The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Edited by Ines G. Zupanov

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What is different compared to other Oxford Handbook volumes is that the scholarship in the present volume is truly international. The authors belong to fifteen different nationalities with Italians, French and Argentinians being the majority of contributors. Some of the authors are distinguished scholars whose work is not known in English speaking communities of historians. Since they developed their ideas and intellectual tools in different scholarly contexts, the Anglophone audience will surely find their analytical optics refreshing and stimulating new ways of approaching the history and the continuing presence of the Society of Jesus.
One of the important, if not entirely unique, features is that the book deals with the Old and the New Society in the same volume. The tendency in non-apologetic, non-partisan histories is to separate the two periods. The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (2008) apologizingly included both periods. The chapters in this volume think beyond the gatekeeping concepts of continuity and discontinuity. This is the reason why some chapters propose a longue durée approach, while others focus on shorter chronologies.

New to this Edition:

40 new chapters
Analysis of the modern context in which the Society of Jesus operates, along with a detailed history of the order.

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Edited by Ines G. Zupanov

Description

Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others.

The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Edited by Ines G. Zupanov

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Table of Contents Handbook of Jesuits

Ines G. Zupanov :
Introduction: Is One World Enough for the Jesuits?

I) Foundation and Administration
1. Pierre Antoine Fabre :
The "First Fathers" of the Society of Jesus

2. Markus Friedrich
Jesuit Organization and Legislation: Development and Implementation of a Normative Framework

3. Paul Nelles:
Jesuit Letters

II) Spirituality and Economy
4. Silvia Mostaccio:
Spiritual Exercises : Obedience, Conscience, Conquest,

5. Federico Palomo
Jesuit Interior Indias: Confession and Mapping of the Soul

6. Frederic Vermote
Financing Jesuit Missions

III) Education and Politics
7. Cristiano Casalini:
Rise, Character, and Development of Jesuit Education:
Teaching the World

8. Patrick Goujon SJ:
Elites and the Constitution of Jesuit Identity

9. Carlos Zeron:
Political Theories and Jesuit Politics

10. Stefania Tutino:
Jesuit Accommodation, Dissimulation, Mental Reservation

11. Giuseppe Marcocci:
Jesuit Missions Between the Papacy and the Iberian Crowns

IV) Global Missions
12. Stefania Pastore:
Jesuits, Conversos, and Alumbrados in the Iberian World

13. James E. Kelly:
The Jesuit English Mission

14. Paul Shore:
Jesuits in the Orthodox World

15. Emanuele Colombo:
Jesuits and Islam in the Early Modern Period

16. Rafael Gaune Corradi:
Jesuit Missionaries and Missions in the Iberian Colonial World

17. Hélène Vu Thanh:
The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese padroado:
India, China, and Japan (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

18. Festo Mkenda SJ:
Jesuit Involvement in Africa, 1548-2017

V) Jesuit Aesthetics and Artistic Production
19. Mia M. Mochizuki:
Jesuit Visual Culture in a Machine Age

20. Gauvin Alexander Bailey:
Missionary Art and Architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil

21. Walter S. Melion & Ralph Dekoninck:
Jesuit Illustrated Books

22. Yasmin Haskell:
Latinitas Iesu: Neo-Latin Writing and the Literary-Emotional Communities of the Old Society of Jesus

23. Ann-Sophie Gallo:
Jesuit Theater

24. David R. M. Irving:
Music in the Global Jesuit Mission, 1540-1773

VI) Scientific Projects
25. Romano Gatto:
Jesuit Mathematics

26. Luís Miguel Carolino:
Astronomy, Cosmology and Jesuit Discipline, 1540-1758

27. Miguel de Asúa:
Natural History in the Jesuit Missions

28. Stuart M. McManus:
Jesuit Humanism and Indigenous-Language Philology in the Americas and Asia

29. Paul Shore:
The Historiography of the Society of Jesus

30. Fernanda Alfieri:
Tracking Jesuit Psychologies:
From Ubiquitous Discourse on the Soul to Institutionalized Discipline

31. Charlotte de Castelnau-l'Estoile:
Jesuit Anthropology : Studying "Living Books"

VII) Antijesuitism, Enlightenment and the Suppression
32. Sabina Pavone:
Antijesuitism in a Global Perspective

33. Juan-Pau Rubiés:
Jesuits in Enlightenment

34. Claudia von Collani:
The Jesuit Rites Controversy

35. Niccolò Guasti:
The Age of Suppression:
From the Expulsions to the Restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759-1820)

VIII) Restoration
36. Martín M. Morales:
The Restoration of the Society of Jesus and the Vagaries of Writing

37. Adina Ruiu:
A Bridge between the 'Old' and the 'New' Society: Writing the History of the Jesuit North- American Missions

38. Guillermo Wilde:
Jesuit Missions´ Past and the Idea of Return: Between History and Memory

39. Frédéric Gugelot:
A Jesuit Way of Being Global? Second Vatican Council, Inculturation, and Liberation Theology

40. Benoît Vermander SJ:
The Jesuits in the Twenty-First Century

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Edited by Ines G. Zupanov

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Author Information

Ines G. Zupanov is social /cultural historian of Catholic missions in South Asia and has also worked on other topics related to Portuguese empire. In addition to other two books, her latest monograph cowritten with Ângela Barreto Xavier is Catholic Orientalism; Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge, 16th-18th centuries (OUP, New Delhi, 2015). She coedited seven books and her articles are published in edited volumes and journals (Annales, Representations, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, RES: Anthropology and Esthetics, etc.)

Contributors:

Ines G. Zupanov
Pierre Antoine Fabre
Markus Friedrich
Paul Nelles
Silvia Mostaccio
Federico Palomo
Frederic Vermote
Cristiano Casalini
Patrick Goujon SJ
Carlos Zeron
Stefania Tutino
Giuseppe Marcocci
Stefania Pastore
James E. Kelly
Paul Shore
Emanuele Colombo
Rafael Gaune Corradi
Hélène Vu Thanh
Festo Mkenda SJ
Mia M. Mochizuki
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Walter S. Melion & Ralph Dekoninck
Yasmin Haskell
Ann-Sophie Gallo
David R. M. Irving
Romano Gatto
Luís Miguel Carolino
Miguel de Asúa
Stuart M. McManus
Paul Shore
Fernanda Alfieri
Charlotte de Castelnau-l'Estoile
Sabina Pavone
Juan-Pau Rubiés
Claudia von Collani
Niccolò Guasti
Martín M. Morales
Adina Ruiu
Guillermo Wilde
Frédéric Gugelot
Benoît Vermander SJ

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Edited by Ines G. Zupanov

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Reviews and Awards

"The Handbook is the product of the erudition and broad vision of Ines Županov, a distinguished historian of the Jesuits in the early modern Portuguese world." -- Thomas M. Cohen, Church History

"[Žuupanov's] international CV, whic ... includes several years spent doing research and fieldwork in India, has given her not only a truly interdisciplinary range of reference but also a network of scholarly contacts that spans the globe. The result is that Ž½upanov has been able to bring together a first-rate, international team of forty authors from all stages of their careers, many of whom are already familiar names to readers of this journal as leading figures in their respective fields; but significantly many more are not (yet)." -- Journal of Jesuit Studies