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Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a
diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to
consider one of the most pressing issues of our time: increasing
inequalities of income and wealth that grate against justice and
erode the bonds that hold society together. The contributors think
through different religious traditions to understand and address
inequality. They make practical proposals in relation to concrete
situations like mass incarceration and sweatshops. They also
explore the inner experience of life in a society marked by
inequality, tracing the contours of stress, hopelessness and a
restless lack of contentment. This book honors the work of Jon P.
Gunnemann, who has been a leading scholar at the intersections of
religion and economics. Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality
will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and
scholars of religion and economics. It will be useful to
policy-makers and activists seeking a more thorough understanding
of the role of religion and theology in public life.
Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a
diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to
consider one of the most pressing issues of our time: increasing
inequalities of income and wealth that grate against justice and
erode the bonds that hold society together. The contributors think
through different religious traditions to understand and address
inequality. They make practical proposals in relation to concrete
situations like mass incarceration and sweatshops. They also
explore the inner experience of life in a society marked by
inequality, tracing the contours of stress, hopelessness and a
restless lack of contentment. This book honors the work of Jon P.
Gunnemann, who has been a leading scholar at the intersections of
religion and economics. Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality
will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and
scholars of religion and economics. It will be useful to
policy-makers and activists seeking a more thorough understanding
of the role of religion and theology in public life.
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and
politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad,
crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for
the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence.
Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin,
Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly
secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit.
He brings this argument to life--and digs deep into the American
political imagination--through a string of surprising reflections
on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms
against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that
the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion,
but its reconnection to richer and more critical modes of religious
reflection. Only political theology can keep secular politics
secular. A historical and theoretical intervention, "Weird John
Brown" is also a constructive theological proposal for rethinking
the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence, both human and
divine.
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and
politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad,
crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for
the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence.
Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin,
Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly
secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit.
He brings this argument to life--and digs deep into the American
political imagination--through a string of surprising reflections
on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms
against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that
the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion,
but its reconnection to richer and more critical modes of religious
reflection. Only political theology can keep secular politics
secular. A historical and theoretical intervention, "Weird John
Brown" is also a constructive theological proposal for rethinking
the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence, both human and
divine.
"How do we preach in a way that affirms Christian theology while
also honoring the insights of other faith traditions?" "How do we
preach about and help create genuine Christian community in a
social networking culture?" Questions Preachers Ask examines many
questions that are on the minds of preachers today, questions that
focus on how to preach the gospel in a culture where biblical
knowledge cannot be presumed and where the Bible is often viewed as
untrustworthy. Well-known preachers, scholars, and authors,
including Barbara Brown Taylor, Gail O'Day, Anna Carter Florence,
Richard Lischer, and Thomas Lynch, provide the answers. This book,
compiled to honor writer, preacher, teacher, and scholar Thomas G.
Long at the end of his teaching career, addresses practical
questions such as "How do we proclaim the good news to young adults
who are on the margins of church or have left it?" and "How do we
preach to faith communities that are highly diverse?" Perfect for
preachers at any stage of their ministry, these essays offer hope
and guidance for handling the difficult task of preaching in
today's congregations.
The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice
brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about
religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space,
institutions, and ideas, this 2007 book tells the story of the 'new
measures' that circulated in the religious revivals of the 1820s
and '30s and traces the role of these practices in the development
of democratic culture in the United States. The book borrows
resources from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to remember the
new measures from an eschatological point of view. That
eschatological perspective holds together close empirical studies
and explicitly theological hopes. The book's attention to detail
moves it beyond abstraction and caricature to a more materialist
political theology. And its eschatological hope resists narratives
of progress and decline to understand American democracy as both
tangled in contradiction and caught up in redemption.
The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice
brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about
religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space,
institutions, and ideas, this 2007 book tells the story of the 'new
measures' that circulated in the religious revivals of the 1820s
and '30s and traces the role of these practices in the development
of democratic culture in the United States. The book borrows
resources from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to remember the
new measures from an eschatological point of view. That
eschatological perspective holds together close empirical studies
and explicitly theological hopes. The book's attention to detail
moves it beyond abstraction and caricature to a more materialist
political theology. And its eschatological hope resists narratives
of progress and decline to understand American democracy as both
tangled in contradiction and caught up in redemption.
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