Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Contributors xiii
5. Preface xvii
6. Abbreviations xxi
7. Introduction: The Pastoral, Social, Ecclesiastical, Civic, and Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus xxiii
8. PART ONE. The Society in Society
9. 1. Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe 1
10. 2. The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe 24
11. 3. Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus 33
12. 4. Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu 50
13. 5. Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society 66
14. 6. The Jesuit Garden 86
15. PART TWO. The Visual Arts and the Arts of Persuasion
16. Introduction 109
17. 7. Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders 113
18. 8. Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens’s Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp 157
19. 9. Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal 182
20. 10. Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608–1767) 211
21. 11. The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast 240
22. 12. Suzhou Prints and Western Perspective: The Painting Techniques of Jesuit Artists at the Qing Court, and Dissemination of the Contemporary Court Style of Painting to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Chinese Society through Woodblock Prints 262
23. PART THREE. Scientific Knowledge, the Order of Nature, and Natural Theology
24. Introduction 287
25. 13. Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius’s Opera mathematica (1612) 291
26. 14. Jesuit Influences on Galileo’s Science 314
27. 15. Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus 336
28. 16. Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices 355
29. 17. Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon 371
30. 18. Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth- Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion 390
31. 19. The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746–1800 405
32. PART FOUR. Music, Theatre, and the Uses of Performance
33. Introduction 451
34. 20. ‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575–1590 454
35. 21. Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music 479
36. 22. Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile 498
37. 23. The Orator’s Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano 512
38. 24. The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century 530
39. 25. ‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside) 550
40. PART FIVE. The Overseas Missions: Challenges and Strategies
41. Introduction 573
42. 26. Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru 576
43. 27. The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568–1640) 602
44. 28. The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil 616
45. 29. Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan 638
46. 30. Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China 658
47. PART SIX. Expulsions, Suppressions, and the Surviving Remnant
48. Introduction 679
49. 31. Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France 682
50. 32. The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution 691
51. 33. The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil 707
52. 34. Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748–60 725
53. 35. Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment 738
54. 36. A Jesuit Beata at the Time of the Suppression in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, 1730–1799 758
55. 37. The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings 772
56. Appendix
57. Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654–1712) 787
58. Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt, 21 April 1685: Text 793
59. Index 803