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Center Publications

​​​​​​​Many of CWCIT's  publications result from our conferences and appear as volumes in our book series, Studies in World Catholicism, published under the Cascade Books imprint of Wipf and Stock (these are marked with an asterisk in the tabbed list below). Other CWCIT publications appear in special academic journal issues or as volumes printed by other publishers or by collaborating universities in the global South.

Recently Published

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​Put Away Your Sword: Gospel Nonviolence in a Violent World​​

Edited by Michael L. Budde
(Cascade Books, March 2024)​

​“The proper Christian attitude to violence is a burning contemporary question. Here proponents from different continents, conditions, and disciplines highlight its complexity at a practical as well as the theoretical level . . . A superb and timely debate." 
—​Paul Gifford, SOAS, University of London

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Fratelli Tutti: A Global Commentary

Edited by William T. Cavanaugh; Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, OP; Ikenna U. Okafor; Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CM
(Cascade Books, October 2023)

"This is the first commentary on Pope Francis’s encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, but it is hard to imagine it ever being surpassed." 
—James F. Keenan,​​​ SJ, Boston College


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Daughters of Wisdom​​: Women & Leadership in the Global Church

Edited by Ahida Calderón Pilarski
(Cascade Books, June 2023)

"Daughters of Wisdom offers a paradigm for every conversation about women and the church in the third millennium, drawing from the tradition, the academy, and the apostolate."
—Susan M. Timoney, The Catholic University of America


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Handbook of African Catholicism​​​

Edited by Stan Chu Ilo
(Orbis Books, June 2022)

“A breathtaking and spectacular cartography of the spiritual and theological force of contemporary African Catholicism.” 
—Susan Abraham, president of Concilium: International Journal for Theology


The following titles are conference publications that are currently with the publisher in the editorial process, en route to publication:​

Rise Up and Walk: Catholicism and Health Care across the Globe 

Edited by William T. Cavanaugh
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 15
(Cascade Books, forthcoming winter 2025)
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Published June 2022

African Ecological Ethics ​and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing: An African Commentary on Laudato Si'​
Edited by Stan Chu Ilo
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 11


"In a unique and unprecedented way, this book shows how the ecological crisis does not leave Africa bereft of insights and initiatives. It will delight minds hungry for original voices...."

—Josée Ngalula, Catholic University of Congo

 

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Published December 2020

Gathered in My Name: Ecumenism in the World Church
Edited by William T. Cavanaugh
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 9

(Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2018 conference; view conference videos here)

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Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World*

Edited by Stan Chu Ilo
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 8
(Wipf and Stock, October 2019)
 
*Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2016 conference
 
 
 
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Published August 2019 

Love, Joy, and Sex: African Conversation on Pope Francis's Amoris Laetitia and the Gospel of Family in a Divided World

Edited by Stan Chu Ilo
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 6

Published April 2019

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Theology, Conflict, and Peacebuilding*
Edited by Daniel Franklin Pilario, CM
(Published by St. Vincent School of Theology, April 2019)
 

*Contributions from 2014 international conference held in Manila, Philippines

Published January 2019

 

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The Church and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas: In Between Reconciliation and Decolonization
Edited by Michel Andraos
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 7

Contributions from 2016 conference cosponsored with Catholic Theological Union (CTU)

 

Published May 2018

 
Edited by William T. Cavanaugh
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 4
 
Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2015

Book Reviews

Lucas Briola (Saint Vincent College), Journal of Moral Theology, 8:2 (June 2019) 145-46.

"In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis stresses the close link between the cry of the poor and cry of the earth. These essays . . . allow us to hear and learn from these twin cries. The diversity of perspectives, focused in the Global South and predominantly Catholic part of the globe . . . transports readers to places like the Agusan Marsh and villages in the Niger Delta region and makes the victims of Hurricane Yolanda and other suffering communities our neighbors . . . .While featuring established figures in the field like Celia Deane Deane-Drummond, Michael Northcott,and Cardinal Peter Turkson, the volume also introduces readers to a number of insightful and significant voices that might be less familiar . . . . This volume offers a powerful meditation on the twin cries echoing across our common home."

​Kevin Hargaden (Jesuit Centre for Faith & Justice, Dublin), The Other Journal, 30 (September 19, 2019) online.

"This book is indispensable for theologians, especially Catholic moral theologians, who are interested in environmental questions. It is accessible enough to be enjoyed by the interested lay reader. Particular essays would surely serve as appropriate reading material in later undergraduate courses or introductory postgraduate courses. Its lasting strength is in the breadth of topics covered, the diversity of voices featured, and most importantly, this sense that the environment is not a thing out there, apart from us, subject to our objective gaze . . . . this book shows how the church, which Cavanaugh proposes as 'perhaps the only truly international grassroots organization' (8), should be enmeshed fully in all conversations about how to care for this world we have been gifted."

Published September 2017

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Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora
Edited by Michael L. Budde
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 3

Contributions from 2014 World Catholicism Week conference
(view conference videos)​

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Michael M. Canaris (Loyola University Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies), Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, May 31, 2018.
 
"At times, the ability to cut through the cacophony of noise on the topic to arrive at factual, grounded, and sane dialogue about migration and resettlement remains elusive. Thankfully, we have Michael Budde’s invaluable recent volume Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora as a sort of polar icebreaker (in the maritime sense of the term) to clear an intellectual route so that these channels of sensible exchange can take place in what has become a frighteningly rigid and wintry season of polemics.
 
...[the volume] explores with depth and dexterity questions in this wide gamut of scholarship from a number of intriguing angles and contexts: African, Asian, Latinx, Levantine, ecclesiological, biblical, sociological, historical, cultural, literary, and devotional, to name but a few."
 
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Published Fall 2017

 
Journal of Global Catholicism 2:1 
 
Contributions from 2015 colloquium in Enugu, Nigeria, "The Future of Catholicism in Africa 50 Years After Vatican II"
 
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Published July 2017

Journal of Global Catholicism 2:1
Catholicism in Africa, Part One: Contemporary Issues

Contributions from 2015 colloquium in Enugu, Nigeria, "The Future of Catholicism in Africa 50 Years After Vatican II"

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Edited by Michael L. Budde
Studies in World Catholicism series, Vol. 2

Contributions from 2014 conference of the same name
(view conference videos)
 

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Published May 2017 (available only in Portuguese)

 

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Edited by Maria Clara Bingemer and Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade
Reflexão and PUC-Rio University Press

Contributions from a fall 2015 conference, cosponsored with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

(view conference videos)

 

Published September 2016

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Beyond the Borders of Baptism: Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities
Edited by Michael L. Budde
Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 1

Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2013
(view conference videos)

Book Reviews

Goran Stanic (Catholic University of Leuven), Louvain Studies 41:1 (2018) 97-100.

"...what makes this book unique is the variety of theological-political case studies from various geographical regions and historical periods...most of the contributors provide ample evidence of what happens when 'profane' loyalties become 'sacralized.' Thus, it is not only just another theological exploration, but also, in many ways, a call for action.

....another practical proof that this book challenges the right point at the right time is the fact that there were supposed to be two more contributions in the book, but the authors could not revise their manuscripts due to conflict situations in their respective countries."

Published 2016 (available only in Portuguese)

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Fé, Justiça e Paz: O Testemunho de Dorothy Day
[Faith, Justice, and Peace: The Witness of Dorothy Day]
Edited by Maria Clara Bingemer and Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade

Contributions from a November 2013 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cosponsored with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)​

Published August 2015

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Edited by Peter J. Casarella

Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2010,
"Tradition & Liberation: Charity in Truth and the New Face of Social Progress"

(view conference videos)
Published September 2014
 
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Witnessing: Prophecy, Politics, and Wisdom
Edited by Maria Clara Bingemer and Peter Casarella

Contributions from November 2012 conference of the same name
(view conference videos)


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Published April 2014

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Modern Theology, Vol. 30, No. 2
"Eucharist and Society," pp. 282-402

Contributions from World Catholicism Week 2012, "Real Presences: Eucharist, Society, and Global Catholicism" 
(view conference videos) ​

Contributions from the 2011 symposium, "Cosmic Liturgy: The Vision of Alejandro García-Rivera"

Published Spring 2013

 
Contributions from the 2011 symposium, "Cosmic Liturgy: The Vision of Alejandro García-Rivera" 
 

Published 2013 (available only in Portuguese)

Secularização: Novos Desafios (PUC-Rio)

Secularização: Novos Desafios
[Secularization: New Challenges]
Edited by Maria Clara Bingemer and Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade

Contributions from a fall 2012 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cosponsored with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)​