Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Charts
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Organizing the Society of Jesus
- 3 Decentralizing the Society of Jesus
- 4 Imagining Global Mission
- 5 Space, Time, and Truth in the Jesuit Psychology
- 6 The Missionary Motivation
- 7 The Jesuit Missionary Network
- 8 The Jesuit Financial Network
- 9 The Jesuit Information Network
- 10 The Jesuit Sacred Economy
- 11 An Edifying End: Global Salvific Catholicism
- Appendix A Abbreviations for Document Sources
- Appendix B Chronological Tables (1540–1722)
- Appendix C Principal Prosographical Information
- Appendix D Monetary Systems
- Works Cited
- Index
10 - The Jesuit Sacred Economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Charts
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Organizing the Society of Jesus
- 3 Decentralizing the Society of Jesus
- 4 Imagining Global Mission
- 5 Space, Time, and Truth in the Jesuit Psychology
- 6 The Missionary Motivation
- 7 The Jesuit Missionary Network
- 8 The Jesuit Financial Network
- 9 The Jesuit Information Network
- 10 The Jesuit Sacred Economy
- 11 An Edifying End: Global Salvific Catholicism
- Appendix A Abbreviations for Document Sources
- Appendix B Chronological Tables (1540–1722)
- Appendix C Principal Prosographical Information
- Appendix D Monetary Systems
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
A man walks into a Dublin pub and asks for three cold Guinness stouts. The bartender brings him his three, which he drinks one after the other. Watching him drink, the bartender offers, “Sir, you don't have to order three all at once. If you start with one I'll keep an eye on it, and when it gets low I'll bring you a fresh cold one.” “Oh, no,” the man exclaims, “you don't understand. I have two brothers, one in New Zealand and the other in Canada. We took a vow that whenever any of us drinks, he drinks two more for his two brothers.” The idea of this ritual pleases the bartender, and for many weeks his patron orders the three stouts. One Saturday in February the man enters the pub and orders only two. The change in the ritual stops the bartender cold, and he says in a low voice, “My condolences on the loss of your brother.” Grinning, the man replies, “My brothers are fine; it's just that I'm after giving up Guinness for Lent.”
Our man's drinking custom evokes any rite's openness to multiple interpretations and misinterpretations as well the potential conflicts of new rituals (drinking in threes) with the more traditional ones (Lenten abstinence). It further suggests the power of ritual to bind together a global community, here a community of three brothers on different continents.
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- Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions , pp. 216 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008