Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introducing ourselves / Francis X. Clooney -- 2. Confessions of an Aristotelian Christian / Arthur Madigan -- 3. A philosophical dissection of a Jesuit scholar / William E. Stempsey -- 4. What difference does it make for me as a liturgist to be a Jesuit - or vice versa? / Bruce T. Morrill -- 5. The American Jesuit theologian / Roger Haight -- 6. Philosophizing after the Holocaust / James Bernauer -- 7. Studying physics and Jesuit life : worldliness and life as an immigrant / Ronald Anderson -- 8. Francis Xavier, and the world/s we (don't quite) share / Francis X. Clooney -- 9. A tale of two comings out : priest and gay on a Catholic campus / Thomas J. Brennan -- Epilogue : do Jesuit scholarly endeavors cohere? : self-reckoning and the postmodern challenge / William Rehg.

"In Jesuit Postmodern, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has joined with eight other American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities to reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the contributors to this volume explore the irreducible diversity of their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that shaped Jesuit institutions of higher education from the 1960s to the 1990s. While the contrapuntal display of voices enunciated in this collection will unsettle the conventional and still dominant ways of talking about Jesuits, scholarship, and religious intellectual inquiry, Jesuit Postmodern does not end the conversation, but pushes scholars to talk more critically and imaginatively."--BOOK JACKET.