Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe / Dale K. Van Kley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Kley, Dale K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Jesuits.

Europe--Church history.

Europe.

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An investigation into the role of Reform Catholicism in the international suppression of the Jesuits in 1773†‹ The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and spreading the faith by missions in both Europe and newly discovered lands abroad. But, in 1773, under intense pressure from the monarchs of Europe, the papacy suppressed the Society of Jesus, an act that reverberated from Europe to the Americas and Southeast Asia. In this scholarly history, Dale Van Kley argues that Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress a society instituted by the papacy. Spanning the years from the mid†'sixteenth century to the onset of the French Revolution, and the Jesuit presence from China to Brazil, this is the only single volume in English to make coherent sense of the series of expulsions that add up to what was arguably the most important religious event in Europe of the time, resulting in the secularization of tens of thousands of Jesuits.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Part I. The Place of Anti-Jesuitism in Reform Catholicism

One. From the Catholic Enlightenment to Reform Catholicism, 1540-1759

Two. The Genesis and Trajectory of Anti-Jesuitism, 1554-1761

Part II. The Expulsions and Suppressions of the Jesuits

Three. The Case of France, 1758-1764

Four. Portugal and Spain, 1754-1767

Five. Naples, Parma, and the Bourbon Family Pact, 1767-1773

Part III. Reform Catholicism and the Ultramontanist International

Six. The End of the Jesuits and the Polarization of Catholic Europe, 1773-1791

Afterword as Fast-Forward

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23561-5

OCLC:

1041139947