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Book SynopsisIn Crossings and Dwellings, Kyle Roberts and Stephen Schloesser, S.J., bring together essays by eighteen scholars in one of the first volumes to explore the work and experiences of Jesuits and their women religious collaborators in North America over two centuries following the Jesuit Restoration. Long dismissed as anti-liberal, anti-nationalist, and ultramontanist, restored Jesuits and their women religious collaborators are revealed to provide a useful prism for looking at some of the most important topics in modern history: immigration, nativism, urbanization, imperialism, secularization, anti-modernization, racism, feminism, and sexual reproduction. Approaching this broad range of topics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume provides a valuable contribution to an understudied period.
Trade Review“By providing numerous case studies of ordinary, often-overlooked people who made unique as well as representative contributions to forming, transforming, and connecting individuals, institutions, and local communities during a period of intense nation building, this collection deepens and broadens our understanding of American history from 1814–2014. The volume demonstrates that studying US Catholicism is not an intramural exercise of filiopietistic apologists but a crucial contribution of serious scholarship to gain a better understanding of the USA. All serious students of US history will profit from the fine bibliographies at the end of each chapter. Specialists will find much helpful information to prompt their further questions and suggest creative research projects. Those who planned and executed this project deserve many thanks.” James Grummer, S.J. (Pontifical Gregorian University). In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 87, Fasc. 173 (2018-I), pp. 151–154.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Abbreviations Foreword: The Will of the Gods, the Life of Bees, and the Brightness of Stars Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. Introduction: Crossings and Dwellings Kyle B. Roberts and Stephen R. Schloesser, S.J. Part 1 Crossings 1: Indigenous and Immigrant (1814–65) 1. Transatlantic Reinvention, 1773–1848: An Old World Accommodates the New Gerald L. McKevitt, S.J. 2. A Romantic Invented Tradition: Restoring the Seventeenth-Century Paraguayan Reductions in the Nineteenth-Century Rocky Mountains Frédéric Dorel 3. Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings on the Society of Jesus: Passionate Apologetics and “Wanton” Attacks Charlotte Hansen Part 2 Dwellings 1: Urban Hybrids (1865–1920) 4. Finding God in the City: Religion and Urban History Timothy Gilfoyle 5. “To Any Degree”: Jesuit Medical Schools in the Nineteenth-Century United States Dana A. Freiburger 6. Recusant Constitutionalist Ultramontanism: Rhetorical Practice at Clongowes Wood and Holy Cross, 1815–1920 Thomas R.E. Murphy, S.J. 7. Core and Peripheries: Spatial Organization and Workings in Early BVM Schools Rachel Daack 8. Public School “Secularists” vs. Women Religious: Competing Visions for Educating Immigrant Catholics in Jane Addams’s Progressive Era Chicago, 1890–1925 Rima Lunin Schultz 9. A Jesuit University in the New World: Music’s Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789–1930) Anna Harwell Celenza Part 3 Dwellings 2: Slightly Askew (1920–65) 10. Confessional and Couch: E. Boyd Barrett, Priest-Psychoanalyst Paula M. Kane 11. Jamaica Triumphant (1937): Daniel Lord, Pageantry, and the Foundations of Jamaican National Theater Roy Brooks-Delphin 12. Icy Crossings and Dwellings: John Fox, S.J., and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows Mary Ewens, O.P. 13. The Long Formation of Daniel Berrigan: 1921–66 Eric Martin Part 4 Crossings 2: Borders and Boundaries (1965–2015) 14. “Each Individual Catholic Can and Does Form His Own Conscience on This and Every Other Subject”: John Ford, S.J., and the Theology of Conscience, 1941–69 Pete Cajka 15. Jesuits and Madames: The Life and Death of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1945–75 James M. O’Toole 16. Daniel Berrigan as Precursor to and Embodiment of GC 32’s “Decree 4: Our Mission Today” (1974–75) Daniel Cosacchi 17. From Religions to Lifeways: Jesuits and Native Americans, 1965–2015 Frédéric Dorel 18. Jesuit Ecumenism in Three Acts: Lessons from the Life of Robert McAfee Brown Paul G. Crowley, S.J. Afterword: Narrating Catholic History Thomas A. Tweed
