摘要：The Society of Jesus marked the two-hundredth anniversary of its restoration in 2014. The “bicentennial moment” in the United States included, among other commemorations, a major exhibition, an international conference, and digital projects at Loyola University Chicago, as well as the publication of new scholarship, such as: Jesuit Survival and Restoration: A Global History, 1773–1900, edited by Robert A. Maryks and Jonathan Wright (Brill, 2015); Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global by John T. McGreevy (Princeton, 2016); and this volume, Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814–2014, edited by Kyle B. Roberts and Stephen R. Schloesser. This collection features eighteen essays, sixteen of which began as papers at the 2014 conference at Loyola University Chicago. The title of the exhibition, conference, and volume comes from Crossings and Dwellings: A Theory of Religion by Thomas Tweed (Harvard UP, 2006). Tweed defines religion as “crossing and dwelling, about ‘finding a place and moving across space’” (725). Approximately sixty million Europeans migrated around the world during the nineteenth century and nearly half of them were Catholic. Of the Catholic immigrants who settled in the cities of North America’s eastern seaboard, many crossed additional boundaries into the American Midwest. As Catholics accommodated, adapted to, and sometimes rejected new American contexts and conditions, Jesuit priests and the women religious with whom they consistently collaborated, constructed institutions to shelter, educate, evangelize, and inspire American Catholics. It is appropriate, then, that the title points to the dynamics of movement and habitation and that Tweed contributes a set of enduring questions and new avenues of inquiry for future scholarship in the Afterword.
