Economy, Difference, Empire : : Social Ethics for Social Justice / / Gary Dorrien.
Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethicssocial gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theologyGary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and polit...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: The Social Gospel and Niebuhrian Realism
- 1. Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel
- 2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism
- 3. The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Social Ethics, and Public Intellectualism
- 4. Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial Justice
- PART II: Economic Democracy in Question
- 5. Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism
- 6. Michael Harrington and the "Left Wing of the Possible"
- 7. Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem
- 8. Breaking the Oligarchy: Globalization, Turbo-Capitalism, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy
- 9. Rethinking and Renewing Economic Democracy
- PART III: Neoconservatism and American Empire
- 10. The Neoconservative Phenomenon: American Power and the War of Ideology
- 11. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the Iraq War
- 12. Militaristic Illusions: The Iraq Debacle and the Crisis of American Empire
- 13. Empire in Denial: American Exceptionalism and the Community of Nations
- PART IV: Social Ethics and the Politics of Difference
- 14. The Feminist Difference: Rosemary R. Ruether and Eco-Socialist Christianity
- 15 Pragmatic Postmodern Prophecy: Cornel West as Social Critic and Public Intellectual
- 16. As Purple to Lavender: Katie Cannon and Womanist Ethics
- 17. Religious Pluralism as a Justice Issue: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Ecumenism
- 18. The Obama Phenomenon and Presidency
- 19. Social Ethics in the Making: History, Method, and White Supremacism
- Notes
- Index