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Religion and Social Policy (Paperback)
Paula Nesbitt; Contributions by Otto Maduro, James T Richardson, James A. Beckford, Tink Tinker, …
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R1,276
Discovery Miles 12 760
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What is the role of religion in creating the rules of society? What
should religion's role be? Religion in industrialized countries
often appears as a private, personal matter while issues of social
justice are worked out in a secular public sphere. But increasingly
both policymakers and religious leaders are becoming aware of the
role religious values play at the local, national and international
levels. Religion and Social Policy explores how religious concerns
influence those who shape and those who are shaped by policies. It
queries the social teachings of global denominations and local
congregations, as well as the implicit religious stances taken by
national governments and international NGOs. Broad issues such as
religious tolerance, globalization, multiculturalism, gender roles
and economic inequality are carefully grounded with practical
examples. For students of religion, sociology, politics or public
policy, Religion and Social Policy offers an excellent overview of
how the sacred and the secular mix in both the theory and practice
of creating a just society. Visit the editor's web page
What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism,
globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically
precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This
book, by one of the country's best-known Latino theologians,
explores possibilities for liberation from the forces that would
impose certain forms of knowledge on our social world to manipulate
our experience of identity, power, and justice.
Beautifully written in a refreshingly direct and accessible prose,
Maduro's book is nevertheless built upon subtly articulated
critiques and insights. But to write a conventional academic
tractatus would have run counter to Maduro's project, which is
built on his argument that ignorance is masked in the language of
expertise, while true knowledge is dismissed because it is
sometimes articulated in pedestrian language by those who produce
it through the praxis of solidarity and struggle for social
justice.
With a generosity and receptivity to his readers reminiscent of
letters between old friends, and with the pointed but questioning
wisdom of a teller of parables, Maduro has woven together a
twenty-first-century reply to Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Neither
conventional monograph nor memoir, neither a theological nor a
political tract, but with elements of all of these, Maps for a
Fiesta arrives as Maduro's philosophical and theological testament
one that celebrates the knowledge-work and justice-making of the
poor.
What Maduro offers here is a profound meditation on the
relationship between knowledge and justice that could be read as a
manifesto against the putatively unknowable world that capitalist
chaos has made, in favor of a world that is known by the measure of
its collective justice. His fiesta grants us the joy that nourishes
us in our struggles, just as knowledge gives us the tools to build
a more just society. What Maduro offers is nothing less than an
epistemology of liberation.
What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism,
globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically
precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This
book, by one of the country's best-known Latino theologians,
explores possibilities for liberation from the forces that would
impose certain forms of knowledge on our social world to manipulate
our experience of identity, power, and justice.
Beautifully written in a refreshingly direct and accessible prose,
Maduro's book is nevertheless built upon subtly articulated
critiques and insights. But to write a conventional academic
tractatus would have run counter to Maduro's project, which is
built on his argument that ignorance is masked in the language of
expertise, while true knowledge is dismissed because it is
sometimes articulated in pedestrian language by those who produce
it through the praxis of solidarity and struggle for social
justice.
With a generosity and receptivity to his readers reminiscent of
letters between old friends, and with the pointed but questioning
wisdom of a teller of parables, Maduro has woven together a
twenty-first-century reply to Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Neither
conventional monograph nor memoir, neither a theological nor a
political tract, but with elements of all of these, Maps for a
Fiesta arrives as Maduro's philosophical and theological testament
one that celebrates the knowledge-work and justice-making of the
poor.
What Maduro offers here is a profound meditation on the
relationship between knowledge and justice that could be read as a
manifesto against the putatively unknowable world that capitalist
chaos has made, in favor of a world that is known by the measure of
its collective justice. His fiesta grants us the joy that nourishes
us in our struggles, just as knowledge gives us the tools to build
a more just society. What Maduro offers is nothing less than an
epistemology of liberation.
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