History of the Jesuits

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This course will introduce students to religion in the late Middle Ages and the place of organized religious life in that Society. Students will then read about Ignatius Loyola and the formation of the Society of Jesus and its place in changing religious life because of the criticisms of the Christian Humanists. The students will then read about the work of the Society in education, in Latin and South America, in China and Japan, in exploring the North American continent and in astronomy. The Jesuits ran the only world wide school system from its beginnings in Messina in 1540 until the suppression of the Society in 1784. Course Attributes: Catholicism & Culture Minor, Humanities Elect/Integrations College of Arts & Sciences History