Edited by Ines G. Županov, The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits is now available in print. The 40 chapters were previously only available online. Bibliographical citations for the book and the chapters are included within the Jesuit Online Bibliography.
By focusing on the Jesuits, “one of the first institutions with a truly ‘global’ reach, in practice and intention,” The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits intends to offer “a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies.” The essays examine the Jesuits “resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions.” They also explore “contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others” by the Jesuits.
Županov has organized the 1,152-page volume into seven sections: “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.” Importantly, the handbook “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.”
A full table of contents appears below. More information is available on the Oxford University Press website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-jesuits-9780190639631?cc=us&lang=en&#
Table of Contents
Introduction
Ines G. Zupanov
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