Michael Budde
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael L. Budde is a professor of political science at DePaul University where he was the former chair of the Political Science Department and former director of DePaul’s Center for Church-State Studies. Budde’s areas of research focus on interactions between ecclesiology and political economy, especially, but not exclusively, as such relate to Catholicism and Christianity as transnational communities.

Budde has authored the following books: The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System (Duke University Press); The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries (Westview Press), Christianity Incorporated (Brazos Press). He has also written several edited volumes and articles in scholarly journals including Studies in Christian Ethics, Sociology of Religion, and World Policy Journal.