The Jesuits II
Subtitle: cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773
By: edited by John W. O'Malley ... [et al.]
Contributors: O'Malley, John W
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 905
ISBN-13: 9780802038616
Subjects: Jesuits -- History -- Congresses; Christianity and culture -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Jesuits 2; Jesuits two
Description: Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting led to the creation of the first volume in this series, The Jesuits, which examined the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, with special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures. This second volume, following a second conference in 2002, continues in a similar path as its predecessor, complementing the regional coverage with contributions on the Flemish and Iberian provinces, on the missions in Japan, and in post-Suppression Russia and the United States. The performing arts, like theatre and music, are broadly treated, and, in addition to continued attention to painting and architecture, the volume contains essays on a range of objets d'art, including statuary, reliquaries, and alter pieces - as well as on gardens, mechanical clocks, and related automata. Other themes include finances, natural theology, censorship within the Jesuit order, and the Society's relationship to women. Perhaps most important, the volume gives particular attention to the eighteenth century, the 'age of disasters' for the Jesuits - the negative papal ruling on Chinese Rites, the destruction the of Paraguay Reductions, and the suppressions of the order that began in Portugal and that culminated in the general Suppression of 1773. With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory. -- ‡c From Amazon.com.
Notes: Essays originally presented as papers at a conference held in 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The Society in society; title: Pt. 2. The visual arts and the arts of persuasion; title: Pt. 3. Scientific knowledge, the order of nature, and natural theology; title: Pt. 4. Music, theatre, and the uses of performance; title: Pt. 5. The overseas missions: challenges and strategies; title: Pt. 6. Expulsions, suppressions, and the surviving remnant; title: Appendix: Jesuit opera in seventeenth-century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654-1712)