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Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Paperback)
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Capitalism and Christianity, American Style is William E.
Connolly's stirring call for the democratic left to counter the
conservative stranglehold over American religious and economic
culture in order to put egalitarianism and ecological integrity on
the political agenda. An eminent political theorist known for his
work on identity, secularism, and pluralism, Connolly charts the
path of the "evangelical-capitalist resonance machine," source of a
bellicose ethos reverberating through contemporary institutional
life. He argues that the vengeful vision of the Second Coming
motivating a segment of the evangelical right resonates with the
ethos of greed animating the cowboy sector of American capitalism.
The resulting evangelical-capitalist ethos finds expression in
church pulpits, Fox News reports, the best-selling Left Behind
novels, consumption practices, investment priorities, and state
policies. These practices resonate together to diminish diversity,
forestall responsibility to future generations, ignore urban
poverty, and support a system of extensive economic
inequality.Connolly describes how the evangelical-capitalist
machine works, how its themes resound across class lines, and how
it infiltrates numerous aspects of American life. Proposing changes
in sensibility and strategy to challenge this machine, Connolly
contends that the liberal distinction between secular public and
religious private life must be reworked. Traditional notions of
unity or solidarity must be translated into drives to forge
provisional assemblages comprised of multiple constituencies and
creeds. The left must also learn from the political right how power
is infused into everyday institutions such as the media, schools,
churches, consumption practices, corporations, and neighborhoods.
Connolly explores the potential of a "tragic vision" to contest the
current politics of existential resentment and political hubris,
explores potential lines of connection between it and theistic
faiths that break with the evangelical right, and charts the
possibility of forging an "eco-egalitarian" economy. Capitalism and
Christianity, American Style is William E. Connolly's most urgent
work to date.
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