Product Description: The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history. Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached the Gospel, managed a vast educational network, and shaped the Catholic Church, society, and politics in all corners of the earth...read more

Product Description: The phenomenon of secularization since the Reformation and the beginnings of modernity has been traced by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age. He sees this in three modes: (1) separation of public, especially political, spaces from a religious context; (2) lessening in ecclesial practice by the general populace, which the Pew FoundationStudies indicates as particularly strong among the younger generationsof Catholics; and (3) deeper levels of human consciousness in whichreligious engagement and identity is no longer expected but instead hasbecome a difficult choice or option...read more

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