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Hak Joon Lee
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October 2020
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Author
Hak Joon Lee
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Published
October 2020
£51.60
Free UK Delivery
Currently out of stock
God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach
Today's Price £51.60
For decades, the multiple, interlocking forces of technological advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization have been transforming the very moral fabric and institutional underpinnings of global society. The effects of these challenges include soaring economic inequality, a widely experienced social fragmentation, and increasing disenchantment with liberal democracy and its social arrangements. This unraveling can be seen in the rise of illiberal democracy, a deepening ecological crisis, and failures of governance in coping with natural disasters and social tumults alike.
In response to this crisis of democracy and eroding community, a growing number of people have been attracted to Saul D. Alinsky's grassroots method of community organizing.
God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach is written in this cultural milieu; it brings Alinsky's community organizing into conversation with the biblical vision of of covenant. Hak Joon Lee argues that, theologically, covenant reflects the life of the triune God who eternally organizes Godself as the Father, Son, and Spirit, while politically, covenant captures the inherent passion for justice that underlies Jewish and Christian faith. At its heart is the attempt to structure a wholesome, close-knit community of love, justice, and power. He points out that not only is covenant instrumental in the formation of God's people as a community, but the concept has also played an important role in the rise of modern Western ideas
of democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights.
To demonstrate the political plausibility of covenantal organizing, Lee incorporates four examples of covenantal organizing in different historical and social contexts: Exodus, Jesus, Puritans, and Martin Luther King Jr. Critically engaging with Saul Alinsky's method, Lee seeks to highlight how the
two different streams of political praxis--covenantal organizing and Alinsky's community organizing--can complement each other to develop a more vigorous and effective method of faith-based community organizing.
Finally, Lee explores the political and moral meanings and implications of his study for the current struggle against the neoliberal corporate oligarchy by presenting covenantal organizing as an alternative political philosophy and practice to secular liberal philosophy, postmodernism, identity politics, and communitarianism.
Author
Hak Joon Lee
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Published
October 2020
Weight
545g
Dimensions
162 x 234 x 29 mm
ISBN
9781481313155
ISBN-10
1481313150
Eden Code
5231858
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Author/Creator: Hak Joon Lee
ISBN: 9781481313155
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Release Date: October 2020
Weight: 545g
Dimensions: 162 x 234 x 29 mm
Eden Code: 5231858