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Economy, difference, empire : social ethics for social justice /

"Gary Dorrien is the preeminent social ethicist in North America today."--Cornel West, Princeton University.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dorrien, Gary J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Columbia series on religion and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. The social gospel and Niebuhrian realism. Society as the subject of redemption : Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the social gospel
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the crises of war and capitalism
  • The Niebuhrian legacy : Christian realism as theology, social ethics, and public intellectualism
  • Ironic complexity : Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, modernity, and racial justice
  • pt. II. Economic democracy in question. Norman Thomas and the dilemma of American socialism
  • Michael Harrington and the "left wing of the possible"
  • Christian socialism as tradition and problem
  • Breaking the oligarchy : globalization, turbo-capitalism, economic crash, economic democracy
  • Rethinking and renewing economic democracy
  • pt. III. Neoconservatism and American empire. The neoconservative phenomenon : American power and the war of ideology
  • Imperial designs : neoconservatism and the Iraq War
  • Militaristic illusions : the Iraq debacle and the crisis of American empire
  • Empire in denial : American exceptionalism and the community of nations
  • pt. IV. Social ethics and the politics of difference. The feminist difference : Rosemary R. Ruether and eco-socialist Christianity
  • Pragmatic postmodern prophecy : Cornel West as social critic and public intellectual
  • As purple to lavender : Katie Cannon and womanist ethics
  • Religious pluralism as a justice issue : Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and ecumenism
  • The Obama phenomenon and presidency
  • Social ethics in the making : history, method, and White supremacism.