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Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Rosemary P. Carbine

    • Authors

      Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Palgrave Macmillan

    • Published

      November 2013

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      Given the constant public attention to challenges facing the U.S. as a nation and a people, this collection embraces the moral, social, and political responsibility of academics to serve as public intellectuals, enhancing the society which we inherit, in which we live, and which we envision for the future. The authors, mostly theologians and ethicists, explore new meanings of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," in an attempt to reconceptualize the meaning of key virtues that shaped self-understanding in America. Globalization, racism, ethnoracism, immigration, poverty, militarism, gender, and sexuality, are explored in relation to their implications for public life. The logic of these essays is inspired mujerista theologian Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz's characteristic convictions: the crucial role of learning from the experiences of others, especially disempowered groups, involved in la lucha or the struggle for justice; the centrality of lo cotidiano or the everyday for innovative epistemologies and ethics, or ways of knowing and living; and, the testimony of her life to the significance of fuerzas para la lucha or God-given strength for the struggle.
      Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species, to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty, and to the happiness that true solidarity can bring as we are and become a people for the common good.

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      • Authors

        Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz +1

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Palgrave Macmillan

      • Published

        November 2013

      • Weight

        250g

      • Page Count

        216

      • Dimensions

        138 x 211 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9781137372222

      • ISBN-10

        1137372222

      • Eden Code

        4245076

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      • ISBN: 9781137372222

      • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

      • Release Date: November 2013

      • Weight: 250g

      • Dimensions: 138 x 211 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 4245076


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