Introduction Thomas Worcester; Part I. Ignatius of Loyola: 1. The religious milieu of the young Ignatius Lu Ann Homza; 2. Five personae of Ignatius of Loyola J. Carlos Coupeau; 3. The spiritual exercises Philip Endean; Part II. European Foundations of the Jesuits: 4. Jesuit Rome and Italy Paul Murphy; 5. The society of Jesus in the three kingdoms Thomas McCoog; 6. Jesuit dependence on the French monarchy Thomas Worcester; 7. Women Jesuits? Gemma Simmonds; 8. Jesuits in Poland and Eastern Europe Stanislaw Obirek; Part III. Geographic and Ethnic Frontiers: 9. The Jesuit enterprise in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan M. Antoni J. Üçerler; 10. Jesuits in China Nicolas Standaert; 11. The Jesuits in New France Jacques Monet; 12. Racial and ethnic minorities in the Society of Jesus Thomas Cohen; Part IV. Arts and Sciences: 13. Jesuit architecture in colonial Latin America Gauvin Alexander Bailey; 14. The Jesuits and the quiet side of scientific revolution Louis Caruana; Part V. Jesuits in the Modern World: 15. The suppression and restoration Jonathan Wright; 16. Jesuit schools in the USA, 1814-ca.1970 Gerald McKevitt; 17. Jesuit theological discourse since Vatican II Mary Ann Hinsdale; 18. Jesuits today Thomas Worcester.