“This dissertation suggests the new knowledge to be won by approaching the Jesuit missions as a macrohistorical phenomenon. Its first half, using the concept of local religion as a foil, develops the idea of "global religion" and suggests why the Jesuits' mentality can only be understood in a world-spanning context. Global religion also served to give legitimacy to a developing world church, to fuel (and to be fueled by) the Jesuit world missionary project.”—OCLC note.

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1. Introduction; 2. Organizing the Society of Jesus; 3. Decentralizing the Society of Jesus; 4. Imagining global mission; 5. Space, time, and truth in the Jesuit psychology; 6. The missionary motivation; 7. The Jesuit missionary network; 8. The Jesuit financial network; 9. The Jesuit information network; 10. The Jesuit sacred economy; 11. An edifying end: Global salvific Catholicism; Appendix A. Abbreviations for document sources; Appendix B. Chronological tables (1540-1722); Appendix C. Principal prosographical information; Appendix D. Monetary systems.
Tables: Languages in Jesuit Probation House, Vienna, 1642 --Languages in Jesuit College of Prague, 1675 -- Languages in Jesuit College of Prague, 1678 -- Ferdinand von Fiirstenberg's mission stations. Charts: 1. Typology of Jesuit Attitudes toward Salvation. 2. Indipetae from Central Europe Preserved in ARSI.