American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global Hardcover - 2016

"Told through brilliantly rendered portraits, American Jesuits and the World describes how European Jesuits, unmoored by revolution in their home countries, fled to the United States and from their new home contributed to shaping a distinctly Catholic global modernity. This is not solely a book about a religious order, but a new history of American Catholicism. A stunning achievement."--Robert A. Orsi, author of History and Presence

"Global history is all the rage today, yet one of the most global institutions--the Catholic Church--has largely been ignored in this new wave of scholarship. In this timely and brilliantly argued book, McGreevy convincingly shows that in order to understand the modern world--and modern America--we need to come to terms with globe-trotting priests with a global vision. A lively and often surprising account."--Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History

"This is a fine book by an accomplished and well-recognized historian of Catholicism in the United States. McGreevy writes in clear and accessible prose, and he fills his narrative with fascinating characters that reveal a great deal about how Catholic immigrants dealt with the nation they adopted as their own."--John W. O'Malley, SJ, author of The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present

"American Jesuits and the World will rightly be recognized as the history of American Jesuits--deftly conceived, superbly researched, and beautifully written."--Jon Butler, coauthor of Religion in American Life: A Short History