A Jesuit Way of Being Global?: Second Vatican Council, Inculturation, and Liberation Theology

Frédéric Gugelot (1)

1 CERHIC - Centre d'études et de recherche en histoire culturelle - EA 2616

The Jesuits were important actors in the Catholic Church in the 1960s when changes in Catholicism occurred before and after the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). The members of the Society of Jesus were active participants in movements calling for the “inculturation” of Christianity and the “liberation theology” coming from the Third World, two sides of the same process of globalization of Catholicism. It is from this time onward that the center of gravity moved away from Rome to South America, Asia, and Africa. The Jesuits also participated in the transition from a triumphant church to a church based on service to the poor. This is the social, cultural, and theological background in which the future pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, spent the early years of his ecclesiastical career.

Mots clés: Jesuits; Sixties; catholicism

Domaines: Histoire; Religions

Frédéric Gugelot. A Jesuit Way of Being Global?: Second Vatican Council, Inculturation, and Liberation Theology. Ines G. Županov (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Jesuits, Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, pp.1036-1053, 2018, 978-0-19-063963-1. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190639631.013.37⟩. ⟨halshs-03039449⟩