To Overcome Oneself
Subtitle: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520-1767
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780520275652
Subjects: Spiritual exercises; Self (philosophy); Jesuits; Ignatius, of loyola, saint, 1491-1556
Description: Examines Jesuit techniques of self-formation, confessional practices, and the relationships between spiritual directors and their subjects that were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of self and fueled the global Catholic missionary movement.