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God and Globalization Volume 1

Religion and the Powers of the Common Life [Paperback]

by Max L Stackhouse, Peter J Paris

    • Authors

      Max L Stackhouse +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

    • Published

      May 2009

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    In the late 20th century, the world has grown increasingly smaller because of advances in technology and the erosion of the nation-state as a political paradigm. The process of globalization—with its promises of a common culture, a common currency, and a common government—offers a new political model for the world that fosters unity and community.

    At the same time, however, this process threatens to destroy the values, norms, and ideals that particular cultures have wrought and established and to thereby diminish the power of each culture’s unique identity. As globalization occurs, society must decide which values will be normative and what roles that social institutions like religion and education will play in selecting and fostering these values. The contributors to this volume examine both the promise and the threat of globalization using the tools of theological ethics to understand and evaluate the “social contexts of life at the deepest moral and spiritual levels.”

    This inaugural volume of a projected four volume series, Theology for the 21st Century: God and Globalization, examines five spheres of life—economics (Mammon), political science (Mars), psychology and sexuality (Eros), the mass media and the arts (Muses), and religion—that foster normative values for society. As the writers argue, their efforts attempt to determine whether “God is behind globalization in any substantive way.”

    Contributors to the volume include: Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh; Yersu Kim, UNESCO; Donald W. Shriver, Jr., New York; William Schweiker, University of Chicago; Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Eastern College; David Tracy, University of Chicago. Max L. Stackhouse teaches at Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Covenant and Commitments: Faith, Family, and Economic. Peter Paris teaches at Princeton Theological Seminary.

    1. Globalization and the Future of "Traditional Religion" - Max L. Stackhouse
    2. Philosophy and the Prospects for a Universal Ethics - Yersu Kim
    3. Responsibility in the World of Mammon: Theology, Justice, and Transnational Corporations - William Schweiker
    4. The Taiming of Mars: Can Humans of the Twenty-first Century Contain Their Propensity for Violence? - Danold W. Shriver, Jr.
    5. Faith, Feminism, and the Family in an Age of Globalization - Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
    6. Public Theology, Hope, and the Mass Media: Can the Muses Still Inspire? - David Tracy

    Specification

    • Authors

      Max L Stackhouse +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

    • Published

      May 2009

    • Editor

      Max L Stackhouse; Peter J Paris

    • Weight

      355g

    • Page Count

      304

    • Dimensions

      138 x 214 x 21 mm

    • ISBN

      9780567462466

    • ISBN-10

      0567462463

    • Eden Code

      1901018

    More Information

    • ISBN: 9780567462466

    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

    • Release Date: May 2009

    • Weight: 355g

    • Dimensions: 138 x 214 x 21 mm

    • Eden Code: 1901018


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