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Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter opens the Studies in Global Catholicism (SGC) series with an examination of a worldwide religious institution that up to now has been more globally extensive than truly globalized. It explores the world historical and theological meaning of de-Europeanization with church data by world region. Readers get an in-depth look at the institutional and theological capacity and limits of the cosmopolitan reality of today’s Catholic Church. Its integrated perspective, grounded in cultural and political history together with an ecclesiology of post-Vatican II Catholicism, offers a new way to approach today’s emerging post-colonial, inter-cultural Global Catholicism as centuries-old trajectories are disrupted and pressing new realities demand original responses.
Price: $86.00
Pages: 310
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Global Catholicism
Publication Date:
04 October 2024
ISBN: 9789004700024
Format: Paperback
"This is an important book, as much for its aspiration as its achievement, for it advances a cause. Its two authors, both widely published and influential, here argue for the value of global Catholicism as an academic field with a distinct methodology, one shaped by the current realities of the Catholic Church as placed in historical perspective. In this, the inaugural and programmatic volume in the Brill series “Studies in Global Catholicism,” of which they are editors-in-chief, Faggioli, a theologian, and Froehle, a sociologist, both US-based at the time of publication (Faggioli has recently taken up a position at Trinity College Dublin), make strong assertions about the need for such a field, all the while unveiling numerous insights. Whether they succeed in establishing the new field, only time will tell. Meanwhile there is much to celebrate in this volume...
This is an ambitious book, and its goals are clearly laid out and well-defended. In the effort to emphasise the need for a new field, other contenders are sometimes caricatured—e.g., “world Christianity,” for example, which might be better seen as a larger container in which Global Catholicism exists than a competitor—yet there are truths in caricatures, too, so that the argument here has its merits. Jargon—or, at least, terms worthy of further defining—operates extensively here as well (e.g., “intradisciplinarity,” abductive, geoecclesiology), and at times the pace of arguments can exceed their precision. Yet the overall effect is compelling enough in supporting the need for a new field. Meanwhile, this book can serve many other purposes, too, as it outlines very thoughtful and well-informed insights for grasping the current Catholic predicament, generating a sober hope about its possible future, and thoughtfully suggesting how to study it." - Paul V. Kollman in: Irish Theological Quarterly 90.4 (2025)
This is an ambitious book, and its goals are clearly laid out and well-defended. In the effort to emphasise the need for a new field, other contenders are sometimes caricatured—e.g., “world Christianity,” for example, which might be better seen as a larger container in which Global Catholicism exists than a competitor—yet there are truths in caricatures, too, so that the argument here has its merits. Jargon—or, at least, terms worthy of further defining—operates extensively here as well (e.g., “intradisciplinarity,” abductive, geoecclesiology), and at times the pace of arguments can exceed their precision. Yet the overall effect is compelling enough in supporting the need for a new field. Meanwhile, this book can serve many other purposes, too, as it outlines very thoughtful and well-informed insights for grasping the current Catholic predicament, generating a sober hope about its possible future, and thoughtfully suggesting how to study it." - Paul V. Kollman in: Irish Theological Quarterly 90.4 (2025)
Massimo Faggioli is professor of historical theology at Villanova University. Among his most recent publications, The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity (2020) and, co-edited with Catherine Clifford, The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (2023).
Bryan Froehle is professor of sociology and religious studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he also directs the Ph.D. in practical theology. Twenty years ago he co-authored Global Catholicism (2003), a precursor to this book.
Bryan Froehle is professor of sociology and religious studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he also directs the Ph.D. in practical theology. Twenty years ago he co-authored Global Catholicism (2003), a precursor to this book.