Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814–2014

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword: The Will of the Gods, the Life of Bees, and the Brightness of Stars

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction: Crossings and Dwellings

Crossings 1: Indigenous and Immigrant (1814–65)

1 Transatlantic Reinvention, 1773–1848: An Old World Accommodates the New

2 A Romantic Invented Tradition: Restoring the Seventeenth-Century Paraguayan Reductions in the Nineteenth-Century Rocky Mountains

3 Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings on the Society of Jesus: Passionate Apologetics and “Wanton” Attacks

Dwellings 1: Urban Hybrids (1865–1920)

4 Finding God in the City: Religion and Urban History

5 “To Any Degree”: Jesuit Medical Schools in the Nineteenth-Century United States

6 Recusant Constitutionalist Ultramontanism: Rhetorical Practice at Clon gowes Wood and Holy Cross, 1814–1920

7 Core and Peripheries: Spatial Organization and Workings in Early B.V.M. Schools

8 Public School “Secularists” vs. Women Religious: Competing Visions for Educating Immigrant Catholics in Jane Addams’s Progressive Era Chicago, 1890–1925

9 A Jesuit University in the New World: Music’s Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789–1930)

Dwellings 2: Slightly Askew (1920–65)

10 Confessional and Couch: E. Boyd Barrett, Priest-Psychoanalyst

11 Jamaica Triumphant (1937): Daniel Lord, Pageantry, and the Foundations of Jamaican National Theater

12 Icy Crossings and Dwellings: John Fox, S.J., and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows

13 The Long Formation of Daniel Berrigan: 1921–66

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

15 Jesuits and Madames: The Life and Death of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1945–75

16 Daniel Berrigan as Precursor to and Embodiment of GC 32’s “Decree 4: Our Mission Today” (1974–75)

17 From Religions to Lifeways: Jesuits and Native Americans, 1965–2015

18 Jesuit Ecumenism in Three Acts: Lessons from the Life of Robert McAfee Brown

Afterword: Narrating Catholic History

Index