The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits. Edited by Thomas Worcester. Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii þ 361 pp. $29.99 paper..

摘要

Although several Cambridge Companions have dealt with Christian topics, thisnis the first volume in the series devoted to a Roman Catholic religious order.nThat alone indicates the prominence of the Society of Jesus. But the volumenis also the product of the burgeoning popularity of the history of the Societynas a field of research. The focus of the essays is intentionally on the early modern period, from the Society’s foundation in 1540 to its suppression inn1773. This makes eminent sense, given the scholarly attention that thisnperiod has attracted. At the end of the volume, Gerald McKevitt describesnthe origins of Jesuit schools in the nineteenth-century United States and theirnadaptation to currents in twentieth-century American society, while MarynAnn Hinsdale highlights ways in which modern Jesuits have embracednliberation theology and explored religious pluralism.