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Oxford University Press has published The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences, edited by Jeffrey Burson (Georgia Southern University) and Jonathan Wright (University of Oxford). Contents of this volume include:

• Plots and rumors of plots: the role of conspiracy in the international campaign against the Society of Jesus, 1758–68, by Dale K. Van Kley;

• Between power and Enlightenment: the cultural and intellectual context for the Jesuit Suppression in France, by Jeffrey D. Burson;

• Friends as liabilities: Christophe de Beaumont’s defense of the Jesuits, by Tom Worcester;

• On the road to suppression: the Jesuits and their expulsion from the reductions of Paraguay, by Maurice Whitehead;

• The end of the Jesuit mission in China, by R. Po-chia Hsia;

• The expulsion and suppression in Portugal and Spain: an overview, by Emanuele Colombo and Niccolò Guasti;

• The Suppression of the Jesuits in the Savoyard state, by Christopher Storrs;

• “Lost in the title”: John Thorpe’s eyewitness account of the Suppression, by Thomas McCoog;

• French Jesuits, c.1756–1814, by D. Gillian Thompson;

• General suppression, Russian survival, American success: the ‘Russian’ Society of Jesus and the Jesuits in the United States, by Daniel L. Schlafly, Jr.;

• Adam Beckers (1744–1806), (ex-)Jesuit in Amsterdam, and the Society of Jesus from Suppression to Restoration, by Paul Begheyn;

• Ex-Jesuits in the east Habsburg lands, Silesia and Poland, by Paul Shore;

• The exile of the Spanish Jesuits in Italy (1767–1815), by Niccolò Guasti;

• The legacies of Suppression: Jesuit culture and science: what was lost? What was gained?, by Louis Caruana.

• Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context (Volume 3, Issue 3).

An extensive account, Diego Laínez (1512-1565) and His Generalate, has been published by Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI). Paul Oberholzer S.J. edits the multi-volume examination of the “Jesuit with Jewish Roots, Close Confidant of Ignatius of Loyola, [and] Preeminent Theologian of the Council of Trent.” Adolfo Nicolas, the sitting superior general, offers some introductory remarks. In all, essays consider Laínez’s personality and ministry, his political and social milieu, his works and networks, Catholic reform, his culture and education, and “The New World.” Available online, at the IHSI website, are the book’s table of contents and Oberholzer’s introduction.

• Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed Diego Laínez (1512-1565) and His Generalate (Volume 3, Issue 4).

Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits & Modern Rhetorical Studies is now available through Fordham University Press. Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton edit what the publisher describes as a “groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present.” The volume considers: the Historical Sites and Scenes of Jesuit Rhetorical Practice, Scholarship, and Pedagogy; Post-Suppression Jesuit Rhetorical Education in the United States; and Jesuit Rhetoric and Ignatian Pedagogy.

Contributors to this volume include:

Patricia Bizzell (Historical Notes on Rhetoric in Jesuit Education); Robert Maryks (Rhetorical Veri-similitudo: Cicero, Probabilism, and Jesuit Casuistry); Thomas Deans (Loyola’s Literacy Narrative: Writing and Rhetoric in The Autobiography of Saint Ignatius Loyola); Maureen A.J. Fitzsimmons (Ladder of Contemplation vs. A Pilgrim’s Staff: The Rhetoric of Agency and Emotional Eloquence in St. Ignatius’ The Spiritual Exercises); Thomas Worcester, S.J. (St. Francis de Sales and Jesuit Rhetorical Education); Carol Mattingly (Black Robes/Good Habits: Jesuits and Early Women’s Education in North America); David Leigh, S.J. (The Changing Practice of Liberal Education and Rhetoric in Jesuit Education: 1600-2000);

John Brereton (The Jesuits and Rhetorical Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America); Steven Mailloux (Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in American Jesuit Colleges); Katherine H. Adams (Jesuit Rhetorical Education in Professional Writing in 19th and 20th Century American Jesuit Colleges); Janice Lauer Rice (Walter Ong, S.J.: A Jesuit Rhetorical Scholar and Interdisciplinary Educator); Gerald Nelms (Edward P. J. Corbett, the Revival of Classical Rhetoric, and the Jesuit Tradition); Paula Mathieu (Bernard Lonergan’s Rhetorical Resonances: A Preliminary Inquiry); Thomas Pace (Paulo Freire and the Jesuit Tradition: The Relationship between Jesuit Rhetoric and Freirean Pedagogy);

Cinthia Gannett (Eloquentia Imperfecta: The Unfinished Business of Eloquentia Perfecta in Twenty-First Jesuit Higher Education); Anne Fernald and Kate M. Nash (The New Eloquentia Perfecta Curriculum at Fordham); K.J. Peters (Jesuit Rhetoric and the Core Curriculum at Loyola Marymount University); John C. Bean, Larry C. Nichols, and Jeffrey S. Philpott (Jesuit Ethos, Faculty-Owned Assessment, and the Organic Development of Rhetoric Across the Curriculum at Seattle University); Karen Surman Paley (Cura Personalis in Practice: Rhetoric’s Modern Legacy); Ann E. Green (Service-Learning and the Rhetoric of Discernment: Reality Working Through Resistance); Jenn Fishman and Rebecca S. Nowacek (Networking Rhetoric for Jesuit Education in a New World); Vincent Casaregola (What We Talk about When We Talk about Voice: Reintegrating the Oral in the Current Writing Classroom);

And Krista Ratcliffe (Reflection: Echoes of Jesuit Principles in Rhetorical Theories, Pedagogies, and Praxes); and Joseph Janangelo (Afterword: Technology, Diversity, and the Impression of Mission).

• Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed Traditions of Eloquence (Volume 3, Issue 4).