Scholarship from and about Catholic communities around the world is growing in breadth and depth. Catholicism, as a global communion with well over one billion members, has seen its center of gravity shift from the so-called global North to Africa, Asia, and Latin America; this has generated an upsurge in popular interest and scholarly investigation about what these changes mean for Christian life, witness, and belief in their diversity and unity. The realignment of Christianity worldwide also opens new areas for cooperation, understanding, and conflict among Catholicism, other Christian traditions, and non-Christian religions and movements.
Studies in World Catholicism offers scholarly, pastoral, and general readers alike the best of interdisciplinary research about and from the multifaceted worlds of Catholicism. Ranging from theology and social ethics to history, culture, and science and dealing with both large-gauge theoretical questions and the particularities of specific communities and contexts—books in this series present the best and most important thinking on matters related to Catholicism as a worldwide movement.Studies in World Catholicism presents both individual scholars, whose work engages matters of concern to the church, as well as group projects that bring scholars from around the world into a conversation about common concerns and aspirations.
This series is a project of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology (CWCIT) at DePaul University in Chicago. Through its research fellowships, international conferences, and scholarly activities, the Center has become one of the leading scholarly institutes focusing on Christianity as a transnational reality. More information on the Center and its work is available at Center for World Catholicism“.
Studies in World Catholicism is edited by William T. Cavanaugh, CWCIT Director and Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University; and Michael L. Budde, Professor of Catholic Studies and Political Science at DePaul University. Proposals for the series may be sent to William T. Cavanaugh or Michael L. Budde .
Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez OP, Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario CM
Foreword by Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ
$43.00
£34.00
AU$68.00
ISBN: 9781666719970
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This volume is the first truly global commentary on a papal encyclical. Pope Francis published Fratelli Tutti in October 2020 in the midst of interrelated global crises: climate catastrophe, ongoing racial injustice, a widening gap between the rich and the desperately poor, battles over human migration, the rise of authoritarian politics, and the erosion of democracy, all exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The encyclical provided a sobering assessment of the devastation but also a hopeful vision of solidarity and healing. The responses in this book not only reflect on Fratelli Tutti from a great diversity of locations and perspectives but also attempt to model Francis's call to fraternity and sorority within this volume. In these pages, scholars from around the world create a conversation meant to embody one of the virtues that Francis elicits in the encyclical: creative openness to the reciprocal gifts of others. This book takes up Pope...
This book offers a window into current realities regarding women's leadership in the global church and explores strategic recommendations to nurture this leadership in the twenty-first century. The...
This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice. The contributors to this important volume explore the common...
This volume differs from many quincentennial discussions of the Protestant Reformation--and ecumenical scholarship more generally--in that it shifts the focus from Europe and the West to the global...
A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator. A Cardinal standing up for his people in the face of political repression. A priest leading his nation's constitutional revision....
This volume's essays are an ecumenical ensemble of the best scholars and leading practitioners in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements from all four corners of the world. The contributors bring...
African Conversation on Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and the Gospel of Family in a Divided World
Edited by Stan Chu Ilo
Foreword by Cardinal Anthony O. Okogie
$38.00
£34.00
AU$53.00
ISBN: 9781532618956
Pub Date: July 2019
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
There is no papal document that has generated as much interest, controversy, and debate in recent times as Pope Francis's Amoris Laetitia. This document, which came out of two very divisive synods of...
Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices come together in this volume to discuss both the wounds of colonial history and the opportunities for decolonization, reconciliation, and hope in the relationship...
In Fragile World: Ecology and the Church, scholars and activists from Christian communities as far-flung as Honduras, the Philippines, Colombia, and Kenya present a global angle on the global ecological...
On the world stage, the Holy See acts as both a religious and a political actor. As the head of over 1.2 billion Catholics, the pope is a widely recognized spiritual authority. Politically, the Holy...
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