Studies in Global Catholicism

The first book of the series Studies in Global Catholicism, opens a new field of interdisciplinary historical, sociological, and theological study appropriate to the post-colonial, inter-cultural, and cosmopolitan nature of the Catholic Church in the 21st century. 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.