William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University.
William T. Cavanaugh has degrees in theology from the universities of Notre Dame, Cambridge, and Duke. He is co-editor of the journal Modern Theology. He has given invited lectures on six continents, and his writings have been published in seventeen languages. He is editor of eight books and author of nine more.
The Uses of Idolatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)
Idolâtrie ou liberté? Le défi de l’Église au XXIe siècle, trans. Sylvain Brison (Paris: Editions Salvator, 2022)
Som om allt förvandlats: Ekologi, ekonomi och eukaristi, trans. Peter Halldorf, et al. (Örebro, Sweden: Marcus Förlag, 2016)
Field Hospital: The Church’s Engagement with a Wounded World (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2016)
Migrations of the Holy: Theologies of State and Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2011)
The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire ( Grand Rapids , MI : Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008)
Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002)
Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ , in the series “Challenges in Contemporary Theology” (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998)