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A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching - The Role of Religion in Moral Responsibility During COVID-19 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching - The Role of Religion in Moral Responsibility During COVID-19 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its
teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the
realm of public health to critically analyze the major global
issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest. It uses the
sociotheological approach that combines the moral principles of CST
and the holistic analysis of modern sociology and also utilizes the
secondary literature as the main source of textual data.
Specifically, it investigates the corporate moral irresponsibility
and some unethical business practices of Big Pharma in the sale and
distribution of its anti-COVID vaccines and medicines, the
injustice in the inequitable global vaccine distribution, the
weakening of the United States Congress's legislative regulation
against the pharmaceutical industry's overpricing and profiteering,
the inadequacy of the World Health Organization's (WHO) law
enforcement system against corruption, and the lack of social
monitoring in the current public health surveillance system to
safeguard the public good from corporate fraud and white-collar
crime. This book highlights the contribution of sociology in
providing the empirical foundation of CST's moral analysis and in
crafting appropriate Catholic social action during the pandemic. It
is hoped that through this book, secular scholars, social
scientists, religious leaders, moral theologians, religious
educators, and Catholic lay leaders would be more appreciative of
the sociotheological approach to understanding religion and
COVID-19. "This book brings into dialogue two bodies of literature:
documents of Catholic social teaching, and modern sociology and its
core thinkers and texts...The author does especially well to
describe how taking 'the sociotheological turn'...will benefit the
credibility and dissemination of Catholic social thought." - Rev.
Fr. Thomas Massaro, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology, Jesuit
School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California.
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