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EP#14 The Holy Has Migrated - With Bill Cavanaugh

Leaving Egypt Podcast

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Bill Cavanaugh about how, as Christians, we might understand the shifting and disruption of our times. Bill proposes that rather than reading the signs through the lens of secularisation, we should think in terms of “the migration of the holy”. He contends that the holy has migrated to the immanent categories of contemporary life in, for example, our captivity by money, consumerism, or the big tech oligarchs. In doing so, he gives us a helpful way of engaging the unravelling and understanding the nature of our modern “Egypt”.   William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago. A widely-published theologian specialising in political theology and ecclesiology, he is the recipient of the 2023 Cortelyou-Lowery Award. Heavily influenced by working in the slums of Santiago, Chile under the military dictatorship, his work involves mentoring and support for under-resourced scholars and practitioners across the Global South. His work is concerned with the social implications of Catholic social doctrine and the Church’s social and political presence in situations of violence and economic injustice.  - Links - For Alan J Roxburgh: http://alanroxburgh.com/about https://www.themissionalnetwork.com/author/alan-roxburgh/ https://journalofmissionalpractice.com/alan-roxburgh Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanjroxburgh?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.roxburgh.127/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonsnetwork Joining God in the Great Unraveling https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-God-Great-Unraveling-Learned/dp/1725288508/ref=sr_1_ Leadership, God’s Agency and Disruptions https://www.amazon.ca/Leadership-Gods-Agency-Disruptions-Confronting/dp/1725271745/ref Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-Remaking-Church-Changing-World/dp/0819232114/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NHGW8KB7L0SQ&keywords=Alan+J+Roxburgh&qid=1687098960&s=books&sprefix=alan+j+roxburgh%2Cstripbooks%2C130&sr=1-3 For Jenny Sinclair: Website: https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/from-jenny-sinclair LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-sinclair-0589783b/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/T4CG Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TogetherForTheCommonGoodUK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t4cg_insta/ For William T Cavanaugh: https://las.depaul.edu/academics/catholic-studies/faculty/Pages/william-cavanaugh.aspx Torture and Eucharist (1998) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Torture-Eucharist-Theology-Challenges-Contemporary/dp/0631211993 The Myth of Religious Violence (2009) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myth-Religious-Violence-Ideology-Conflict/dp/0195385047/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=VvDsF&content-id=amzn1.sym.3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_p=3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_r=260-3097777-8583156&pd_rd_wg=T3Bg Migrations of the Holy: Theologies of State and Church (2011) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Migrations-Holy-Political-Meaning-Church/dp/0802866093/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=VvDsF&content-id=amzn1.sym.3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_p=3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_r=260-3097777-8583156&pd_rd_wg=T3Bgz Field Hospital: The Church’s Engagement with a Wounded World (2016) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Field-Hospital-Churchs-Engagement-Wounded/dp/0802872972/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Xoyww&content-id=amzn1.sym.3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_p=3413293e-3815-4359-96ba-1ec5110e0b30&pf_rd_r=260-3097777-8583156&pd_rd_wg=njOj The Uses of Idolatry (forthcoming, Oxford UP, 2024) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uses-Idolatry-William-T-Cavanaugh/dp/0197679056 Get full access to Leaving Egypt at leavingegyptpodcast.substack.com/subscribe