William T. Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Religious Studies

#228

World Rank

#489

Historical Rank

#110

USA Rank

Theology

#87

World Rank

#247

Historical Rank

#31

USA Rank

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William T. Cavanaugh's Degrees

PhD Religious Studies Duke University
Masters Religious Studies Duke University
Bachelors Religion University of Notre Dame

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According to Wikipedia, William T. Cavanaugh is an American Roman Catholic theologian, known for his work in political theology and Christian ethics. Biography Cavanaugh received his Bachelor of Arts degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1984, and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge in 1987. He later attended Duke University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion in 1996. His areas of specialization are in political theology, economic ethics, and ecclesiology.

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William T. Cavanaugh's Published Works

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Published Works

The Myth of Religious Violence (2011) (320)
Symposium on William Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict * (2009) (305)
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood (2016) (167)
“A FIRE STRONG ENOUGH TO CONSUME THE HOUSE:” THE WARS OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF THE STATE (1995) (165)
Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (1998) (69)
The Blackwell companion to political theology (2003) (56)
Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (2005) (54)
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (2008) (49)
Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation‐State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good (2004) (41)
Does Religion Cause Violence (2007) (34)
The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization (1999) (34)
The Anatomy of the Myth (2009) (33)
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church (2011) (28)
"The City: Beyond Secular Parodies" (1998) (27)
From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space (2006) (27)
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology: Scott/The Blackwell (2007) (21)
Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe (2001) (21)
The Invention of Religion (2009) (18)
Migrant, Tourist, Pilgrim, Monk: Mobility and Identity in a Global Age (2008) (17)
“Religious Violence as Modern Myth” (2014) (16)
The Invention of Fanaticism (2011) (15)
"Sins of Omission: What 'Religion and Violence' Arguments Ignore" (2004) (15)
Return of the Golden Calf: Economy, Idolatry, and Secularization since Gaudium et spes (2015) (13)
Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the United States (2006) (10)
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (2012) (10)
"The Violence of 'Religion': Examining a Prevalent Myth" (2004) (9)
Theopolitical Imagination: Christian Practices of Space and Time (2002) (9)
Behind the common question lies a morass of unclear thinking. (2007) (8)
Dying for the Eucharist or Being Killed by it? (2001) (8)
Church, World, and the Christian Life by Nicholas Healy (2003) (7)
Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person (2001) (7)
The Liturgies of Church and State (2005) (7)
Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World (2016) (6)
Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition (2010) (6)
A Joint Declaration?: Justification as Theosis in Aquinas and Luther (2000) (5)
The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series (2001) (5)
“Killing in the Name of God”1 (2004) (5)
The Ambivalence of the Sacred by Scott Appleby (2003) (4)
The Ecclesiologies of Medellin and the Lessons of the Base Communities (1994) (3)
Are we Free not to be a Religion? The Ambivalence of Religious Freedom (2014) (3)
The War on Terror: Secular or Sacred? (2011) (3)
"Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation" (2011) (3)
The Church in the Streets: Eucharist and Politics (2014) (3)
The Future of Political Theology (2014) (3)
"At Odds With the Pope: Legitimate Authority and Just Wars" (2003) (3)
"Balthasar, Globalization, and the Problem of the One and the Many" (2001) (3)
If You Render Unto God What Is God's, What Is Left for Caesar? (2009) (3)
Actually, You Can’t Be Anything You Want (And It’s a Good Thing, Too (2016) (3)
“Out to Lunch: A Response to Stephen Webb’s ‘Against the Gourmands,’” (2011) (2)
Is Public Theology Really Public? Some Problems with Civil Society (2001) (2)
"Separation and Wholeness: Notes on the Unsettling Political Presence of the Body of Christ" (2009) (2)
Political Theology as Threat (2015) (2)
"Messianic Nation: A Christian Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism" (2005) (2)
“Westphalia and Back: Complexifying the Church-World Duality in Catholic Thought,” (2013) (2)
The Work of the People as Public Work: The Social Significance of the Liturgy (2008) (2)
Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power (2016) (2)
Clash Course: Review of George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism (2008) (2)
"The God of Silence: Shusaku Endo's Reading of the Passion" (1998) (2)
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept (2013) (2)
Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ in the Second World War (2001) (2)
The Unfreedom of the Free Market (2003) (1)
Girard and the Myth of Religious Violence (2017) (1)
Am I Impossible? (2012) (1)
Evolution and the Fall (2017) (1)
Enchantment, Idolatry, and Sacrament: Looking for Grace in the Secular (2017) (1)
Spaces of Recognition: A Reply to My Interlocutors (2011) (1)
Is Public Theology Really Public (2001) (1)
The Mystical and the Real: Putting Theology Back Into Political Theology (2016) (1)
HOW TO DO PENANCE FOR THE INQUISITION (2007) (1)
PEELING AWAY THE CELLOPHANE: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE EXCEPTIONAL GOD (2021) (1)
Coercion in Augustine and Disney (1999) (1)
Absolute Moral Norms and Human Suffering: An Apocalyptic Reading of Endo's Silence (2012) (1)
The Creation Myth of the Wars of Religion (2009) (1)
"A Politics of Vulnerability: Hauerwas and Democracy" (2010) (1)
A Nation with the Church’s Soul (2013) (1)
Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life (2022) (1)
United States Military Chaplaincy Program: Another Seam in the Fabric of Our Society (1983) (1)
The Modest Claim of An Immodest Book (2013) (1)
Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative, edited by Richard A. Burridge and Jonathan Sacks, (2018) (2020) (0)
The (Magic) Kingdom of God by Michael Budde (1999) (0)
Please Don’t Go Out and Change the World: (2020) (0)
A Democratic Catholic Church, ed. Eugene Bianchi and Rosemary Ruether (1995) (0)
Book Review: A Democratic Catholic Church: The Reconstruction of Roman Catholicism (1995) (0)
Editorial Introduction: Eucharist and Society (2014) (0)
"The Body of Christ: The Eucharist and Politics" (2002) (0)
Index of Names and Subjects (1980) (0)
Introduction to the second edition (2019) (0)
The Past As Pilgrimage: Narrative Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History by Christopher Shannon and Christopher O. Blum (review) (2015) (0)
Debate: Religion and Violence (2011) (0)
A US District Court rejects an antitrust claim for lack of standing (Spinelli / NFL) (2015) (0)
Threat of Torture Plays with More Minds than You Might Have Imagined (2006) (0)
Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: Tracey Rowland: New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 214 pp. $24.95 (2010) (0)
The Utopianism of the Obvious (2019) (0)
The Fall of the Fall in Early Modern Political Theory (2017) (0)
Index of Biblical References (1991) (0)
"Is Torture Losing its Shock Value?: The Editors Interview William Cavanaugh" (2008) (0)
Torture and eucharist in pinochet's Chile (1996) (0)
The Uses of the Myth (2009) (0)
Interview, "Politics and God," Encounter program (2009) (0)
WILLIAM CAVANAUGH, STANDARDS SOCIETY PRESIDENT, DIES (1985) (0)
THE POLITICAL NATURE OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO STANLEY MARTIN HAUERWAS, WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH AND WALTER BRUEGGEMANN (2021) (0)
Database analysis of ethnicity, sex, and insurance status of patients with Parkinson's disease (2015) (0)
A Theology of Engagement By Ian S. Markham: Maiden, MA, Blackwell, 2003. 250 pp. $29.95 (2005) (0)
Bonds of Imperfection by Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan and Common Objects of Love by Oliver O’Donovan (2006) (0)
Book Review: Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). xv + 251 pp. £19.99/$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978-1-405-19969-8 (2011) (0)
“Liturgy as Politics: An Interview with William Cavanaugh” (2005) (0)
Dorian Llywelyn, SJ, Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationality (2012) (0)
Book Review: Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (2004) (0)
"Set the Powers to Tremble: John Dear on nonviolence and the nature of God" (1996) (0)
"Taking Exception: When Torture Becomes Thinkable" (2005) (0)
The World Does Not Need Me: On Politics and Humility (2016) (0)
Ecclesial Ethics and the Gospel sine glossa : Sacramental Politics and the Love of the World (2020) (0)
Mark Clavier, On Consumer Culture, Identity, the Church, and the Rhetorics of Delight (2020) (0)
Love as a Habit: A Response to Vincent Lloyd (2019) (0)
Telling God's Story by Gerard Loughlin (1999) (0)
Does God Need the Church? by Gerhard Lohfink (2001) (0)
Book Review: Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community; Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present (2006) (0)
Craig Bartholomew, Jonathan Chaplin, Robert Song and Al Wolters, eds, A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (Carlisle: Paternoster Press; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), pp. xxiv + 445. £24.99 (2006) (0)
"Building on Sand: The Economy and the Common Good" (2009) (0)
"When Enough is Enough: Why God's abundant life won't fit in a shopping cart, and other mysteries of consumerism" (2005) (0)
The Weaponization of Reason (2016) (0)
T he W ar on T error : Secular or S acred ? (2011) (0)
MODERN THEOLOGY AT TWENTY‐FIVE: AN ACHIEVEMENT, A RETROSPECTIVE, AND A RENEWED VISION (2010) (0)
Interview: "Torture Report Leaves Unfinished Business" (2004) (0)
The splendid idolatry of nationalism (2021) (0)
Three Theorists on Religious Violence in an Islamic Context: Karen Armstrong, Mark Juergensmeyer, and William T. Cavanaugh (2019) (0)
The Plight of Western Religion: The Eclipse of the Other‐Worldly by PaulGifford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), xiii + 173 pp. (2021) (0)
16. Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation (2011) (0)
54. Religion and Violence (2017) (0)
“Consumer culture – the air we breathe” (2013) (0)
Exploring Gender-Associated Socioeconomic Differences in Parkinson’s Disease (P1.027) (2015) (0)

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