Jesuits and Globalization

Thomas Banchoff is vice president for Global Engagement at Georgetown University. He also serves as the founding director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and is professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. Jose Casanova is professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religions, and the Secular.

This superb collection of essays is strongly recommended to anyone interested in the history and distinctive identity of the Society of Jesus evolving out of Renaissance humanism. It also provides a timely caution for anyone interested in globalisation, especially in light of what Pankaj Mishra has recently called the ‘Globalization of Rage’. Nationalist populism evokes the initial quandary of negotiating self-identity stated in this collection’s introduction.

• Preface Introduction: The Jesuits and GlobalizationThomas Banchoff and Jose Casanova Part I: Historical Perspectives1. The Jesuits in East Asia in the Early Modern Age: A New "Areopagus" and the "Re-invention" of ChristianityM. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ 2. Jesuit Intellectual Practice in Early Modernity: The Pan-Asian Argument against RebirthFrancis X. Clooney, SJ 3. Global Visions in Contestation: Jesuits and Muslims in the Age of EmpiresDaniel A. Madigan, SJ 4. Jesuits in Ibero-America: Missions and Colonial SocietiesAliocha Maldavsky 5. The History of Anti-Jesuitism: National and Global DimensionsSabina Pavone 6. Restored Jesuits: Notes toward a Global HistoryJohn T. McGreevy 7. Historical Perspectives on Jesuit Education and GlobalizationJohn W. O'Malley, SJ Part II: Contemporary Challenges8. The Jesuits and the "More Universal Good": At Vatican II and TodayDavid Hollenbach, SJ 9. The Jesuits and Social Justice in Latin AmericaMaria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer 10. Global Human Development and the Jesuits in AsiaJohn Joseph Puthenkalam, SJ, and Drew Rau 11. Global Human Mobility, Refugees, and Jesuit Education at the MarginsPeter Balleis, SJ 12. Jesuit Higher Education and the Global Common GoodThomas Banchoff 13. The Jesuits through the Prism of Globalization, Globalization through a Jesuit PrismJose Casanova List of ContributorsIndex