Economy, Difference, Empire : : Social Ethics for Social Justice /

Economy, Difference, Empire : : Social Ethics for Social Justice / / Gary Dorrien.

Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics—social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology—Gary 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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Dorrien, Gary,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
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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

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