03288nam a2200469Ka 4500 ocn750192978 OCoLC 20200709055411.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110907s2010 nyu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780231149846 0231149840 9780231526296 (electronic bk.) 0231526296 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)750192978 384854 (N$T) n-us--- HN59.2 .D67 2010eb SOC 000000 bisacsh 303.3/72097309045 22 N$TA Dorrien, Gary J. Economy, difference, empire [electronic resource] : social ethics for social justice / Gary Dorrien. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. 1 online resource (xxiv, 500 p.) The Columbia series on religion and politics Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt. I. The social gospel and Niebuhrian realism. Society as the subject of redemption : Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the social gospel -- Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the crises of war and capitalism -- The Niebuhrian legacy : Christian realism as theology, social ethics, and public intellectualism -- Ironic complexity : Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, modernity, and racial justice -- Pt. II. Economic democracy in question. Norman Thomas and the dilemma of American socialism -- Michael Harrington and the "left wing of the possible" -- Christian socialism as tradition and problem -- Breaking the oligarchy : globalization, turbo-capitalism, economic crash, economic democracy -- Rethinking and renewing economic democracy -- Pt. III. Neoconservatism and American empire. The neoconservative phenomenon : American power and the war of ideology -- Imperial designs : neoconservatism and the Iraq War -- Militaristic illusions : the Iraq debacle and the crisis of American empire -- Empire in denial : American exceptionalism and the community of nations -- Pt. IV. Social ethics and the politics of difference. The feminist difference : Rosemary R. Ruether and eco-socialist Christianity -- Pragmatic postmodern prophecy : Cornel West as social critic and public intellectual -- As purple to lavender : Katie Cannon and womanist ethics -- Religious pluralism as a justice issue : Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and ecumenism -- The Obama phenomenon and presidency -- Social ethics in the making : history, method, and White supremacism. Description based on print version record. United States Social conditions 21st century. Social ethics United States. Social justice United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Dorrien, Gary J. Economy, difference, empire. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010 9780231149846 (DLC) 2010006605 (OCoLC)539084702 Columbia series on religion and politics. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384854 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50530 50530