This issue, which focuses on the historical and politico-economic dimensions of contemporary Catholicism, comes more than a decade into the papacy of Francis. Pope Francis’s unique navigation through global issues and employment of community dialogue inspired this issue’s diverse scholarship, led by guest editors Samuel Weeks, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Thomas Jefferson University, and George Bayuga, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
What's inside:
- Introduction: Towards an Economic Anthropology of Catholicism, in the Age of Pope Francis
Samuel Weeks and George Bayuga - From Canonical Law to Offshore Finance: Confessing to Priests and Bankers in Luxembourg
Samuel Weeks - A Queer Chinese Pilgrimage: Encountering Catholic Life In Manila
George Wu Bayuga - The Double Bond of Catholic Abolition: Christianity, Chattel Slavery, and Racial Capitalism
Elayne Oliphant - The Missionary and the Pea: An Anthropological Study of the French MEP Economy
Michel Chambon - Interviews in Global Catholic Studies: Mary Dunn
Mathew Schmalz - Interviews in Global Catholic Studies: Matthew Eggemeier and Peter Fritz
Mathew Schmalz - Interviews in Global Catholic Studies: Richard Wood
Mathew Schmalz
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