American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
John T. McGreevy

The Jesuits and Globalization:?Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Thomas Banchoff and José Casanova

Though it may not look like it, the first of these two volumes is, like the second, a collection of essays. Professor McGreevy has not so much written about American Jesuits venturing out from their continent, but rather produced a series of quite fascinating vignettes of nineteenth-century European Jesuits, for the most part expelled from their homelands, coming to terms with life in the United States. Used as they were to crown and mitre being inextricably linked, they found it difficult to deal with the separation of Church and State supposedly to be found in their country of exile. Readers will not learn a great deal about American Jesuits in these pages, but they will discover much about what it was like to be a nineteenth-century American Catholic parishioner, about religious prejudice in the States, and about anti-Jesuit feeling.