2017-2018 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HS 369 - Jesuits in Latin America from 1549-Present

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. The Society of Jesus is Catholicism's largest and most controversial religious order. Jesuits came to Latin America less than a decade after their establishment. This class discusses the Society's origins, its activities in Spanish America and Brazil, and why the Portuguese and Spanish crowns expelled them from their empires in 1759 and 1764. The restored Society found hostility in ninetheenth-century Latin America due to wide spread anti-clericalism while the twentieth century brought renewed growth. The international Cold War together with Latin America's 'dirty wars' made Jesuits targets for military regimes. Catholic conservatives further criticized the Society's real and alleged activities in Latin America. This course examines why Jesuits have simultaneously been admired and reviled. It seeks to separate myths from historical fact while examining the Society's current role in Latin America. GT/IC/IL



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