social ethics for social justice Dorrien, Gary J. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu New York Columbia University Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xxiv, 500 p.) 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. Gary Dorrien. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- United States Social conditions 21st century Social ethics United States Social justice United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / General HN59.2 .D67 2010eb 303.3/72097309045 Dorrien, Gary J. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010 (DLC) 2010006605 (OCoLC)539084702 9780231526296 (electronic bk.) 0231526296 (electronic bk.) http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384854 http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384854 N$T 110907 20200709055411.0 ocn750192978