Acknowledgments; Introduction: Defining Survival; 1. Tracing the Society of Jesus and Jesuit Higher Education; 2. Jesuit Identity, Jesuit Mission, and Southern Locale; 3. Failure to Survive; 4. Closure and Amalgamation; 5. Institutional Survival; Conclusion: Adapting to the South; Appendix: Letter Addressed to the Fathers, Scholastics and Brothers of the New Orleans Province by Rev. Fr. Norbert de Boynes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Sacrifice and Survival recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South. R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesizes that the identity and mission of southern Jesuit colleges and universities may have functioned as catalytic concepts that affected the "town and gown" relationships between the institutions and their host communities in ways that influenced whether they failed or adapted to survive. The Catholic religious order known as t
