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Michael J. Sheeran

Born

in New York, The United States

January 01, 1940

Genre

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Nonfiction

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Michael Sheeran is a Jesuit priest who became interested in the Religious Society of Friends in 1968 when he was studying religious communities which practice communal discernment, a decision making process which the Jesuit Order also utilized when it was founded in 1540 but lost within generation. During doctoral work in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, he returned to the topic, spending two years in conducting interviews, reading, and participant observation focused on the communal discernment tradition as it is exemplified in the voteless decisions of Quakers in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Born in New York City in 1940, Michael Sheeran entered the Society of Jesus at Florissant, Missouri, in 1957. Since then, he has ta ...more