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Author Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Howard)

Title Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression : organization and demographic and quantitative perspectives / Robert H. Jackson
Published Leiden : Brill, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 108 pages) : color illustrations, maps, tables
Series Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
Brill research perspectives in Jesuit studies.
Summary From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of frontier missions. This study examines the organization of the Society of Jesus in Spanish America in large provinces, as well as the different urban institutions such as colegios and frontier missions. It outlines the spiritual and educational activities in cities. The Jesuits supported the royal initiative to evangelize indigenous populations on the frontiers, but the outcomes that did not always conform to expectations. One reason for this was the effect of diseases such as smallpox on the indigenous populations. Finally, it examines the 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories. Some died before leaving the Americas or at sea. The majority reached Spain and were later shipped to exile in the Papal States
Analysis History of the Americas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jesuits -- Latin America -- History
Jesuits -- Missions.
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject History of the Americas.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Missions
SUBJECT Latin America -- History -- To 1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074898
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004460348
9004460349