Commodified Communion

Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823294138

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WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.

Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823294145

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Commodified Communion by Antonio Eduardo Alonso Pdf

Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.

Author : William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197679050

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The Uses of Idolatry by William T. Cavanaugh Pdf

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly "secular" world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things. Cavanaugh examines modern idolatries and the ways in which humans become dominated by our own creations. While Cavanaugh is critical of modern idolatries, his argument is also sympathetic, seeing in idolatry a deep longing in the human heart for the transformation of our lives. We all believe in something, he argues: we are worshipping creatures whose devotion alights on all sorts of things, in part because we are material creatures, and the material world is beautiful. Following an invisible God is hard for material creatures, so we-those who profess belief in God and those who don't-fixate on things that are closer to hand. Ranging widely across the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies, Cavanaugh develops an account of modernity as not the condition of being disenchanted but the condition of having learned to describe the world as disenchanted. For a better description of the world, Cavanaugh turns to scriptural, theological, and phenomenological accounts of idolatry as inordinate devotion to created things. Through deep explorations of nationalism and consumer culture, The Uses of Idolatry presents a sympathetic but critical account of how and why we sacrifice ourselves and others to gods of our own design.

Author : Devin Singh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004517387

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Economy and Modern Christian Thought by Devin Singh Pdf

This study examines the relationship between Christian thought and economy and raises philosophical, theological, and ethical issues that result from the engagement, and points the way to emerging research at this nexus.

Author : Ted A. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462754

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The End of Theological Education by Ted A. Smith Pdf

How to envision theological education in this time between the times The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end—but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal. Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the standing orders of the colonial period to the voluntary associations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He then connects today’s challenges to shifts in contemporary society, including declining religious affiliation, individualization, rising desires for authenticity, and the unraveling of professions. Smith refuses to tell the story as one of progress or decline. Instead, he puts theological education in eschatological perspective, understanding it in relation to its ultimate purpose: “knowledge of God, knowledge so deep, so intimate, that it requires and accomplishes our transformation.” This knowledge is not restricted to a professional clerical class but is given for the salvation of all. Seeing by the light of this hope, Smith calls readers to reimagine church, ministry, and theological education for this time between the times.

Author : Jay Emerson Johnson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596272521

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Divine Communion by Jay Emerson Johnson Pdf

First text to place sexual ethics in a sacramental/liturgical context.Designed to meet the General Convention mandate for "theological reflection" around issues of sexuality and marriage.Appropriate for study regardless of gender or orientation.Before Christian communities try to address sexual ethics, the more fundamental theological question demands attention: What can sexual intimacy tell us about God? This book invites reflection on sexual relationships within a broad theological framework marked by creation, fall, and redemption. These classical hallmarks of Christian faith are proclaimed and enacted at every liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, which offers a compelling way to engage the link between sexual intimacy and the longing for God, or the hoped-for promise of "divine communion."

Author : Timothy Brunk
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814685082

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The Sacraments and Consumer Culture by Timothy Brunk Pdf

2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in sacraments What does consumerism have to do with the sacraments? We live in cultures where our senses of meaning, identity, and purpose are often found in what we purchase. Apart from the question of hedonism, there is the question of how we orient ourselves in an environment in which we end up marketing our very selves. In this book, Timothy Brunk examines how this consumer culture has had a corrosive effect on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. He also assesses how sacramental worship can provide resources for responsible Christian discipleship in today's consumer culture.

Author : Frank D. Macchia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567680679

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The Spirit-Baptized Church by Frank D. Macchia Pdf

Frank D. Macchia argues that the Son of God baptized (and continues to baptize) humanity in the Spirit by pouring forth the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. All four Gospels and the book of Acts describe how the Son is sent of the Father and empowered by the Spirit to fulfil this mission; Macchia in turn claims that Christ succeeds by incorporating others into himself and into the love of the Father. The Spirit-Baptized Church proposes a richly pneumatological ecclesiology that is dominated by a Pentecostal confessional concern, while also open to a larger ecumenical conversation. The volume focuses not only on the dogmatic (Trinitarian) foundations and election processes of the Spirit-baptized church, but also on its marks and witnessing practices. As an exceptionally detailed study of the Spirit-baptismal metaphor, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars of ecclesiology, Pentecostalism, and systematic theology.

Author : Christopher J. Keller,Andrew Shutes-David
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498273763

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Remembering the Future by Christopher J. Keller,Andrew Shutes-David Pdf

Remembering the Future is a collection of poems, essays, and interviews that ask readers to see their world with double-vision-to imagine the redemptive consequences of engaging the world with a fastidious awareness of both the biblical tradition and the cultural moment. Remembering the Future is gathered from the first years of The Other Journal, an online quarterly positioned at the intersection of theology and culture. The Other Journal examines theology with fresh eyes, probing faith with passion, authenticity, and creativity; and this anthology represents the highlights of that endeavor, including content from some of the most important voices in the field of theology today. Remembering the Future offers readers an engaging, thought-provoking picture of what sound theological thinking can and must offer today's Christians giving witness to Christ in our contemporary cultural landscape.

Author : Oliver Decker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134643745

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Commodified Bodies by Oliver Decker Pdf

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud’s theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.

Author : Martha Ertman,Joan C. Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814722282

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Rethinking Commodification by Martha Ertman,Joan C. Williams Pdf

In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes,Loic Wacquant
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761940340

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Commodifying Bodies by Nancy Scheper-Hughes,Loic Wacquant Pdf

"Breaking with established approaches which prioritize the body as 'text', the chapters in this book examine not only images of the body-turned-merchandise but actually existing organisms considered at once as material entities, semi-magical tokens, symbolic vectors and founts of lived experience. The topics covered range from the cultural disposal and media treatment of corpses, the biopolitics of cells, sperm banks and eugenics, to the international trafficking of kidneys, the development of 'transplant tourism', to the idioms of corporeal exploitation among prizefighters as a limiting case of fleshly commodity".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Mark Gottdiener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000306279

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The Theming Of America by Mark Gottdiener Pdf

Mark Gottdiener explores the nature of social change as it has developed since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America, from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disney World, from the Mall of America to your local mall. Nowhere can modern Americans escape the profusion of recognizable symbols and signs attached to virtually every aspect of their culture constantly reminding them that they are on familiar and comforting grounds. "Just come in, friend, and buy; make yourself at home," these symbols seem to say, thus tying media culture and the seduction of consumerism to the production of ingeniously designed symbolic spaces. This is the first book to explore the origins, nature, and future of themed spaces in our information-overloaded world. Gottdiener begins with a brief historical account of the shifting importance of themes in the construction of built space. He then evaluates the economic basis for the increasing reliance on symbols in the marketing of commercial enterprises and analyzes contemporary trends in themed restaurants, malls, airports, theme parks, museums, and war memorials. Final chapters are devoted to examining such critical issues as the disappearance of public space, the relation between themes and mass media industries, and the future of symbolic spaces.

Author : Willie James Jennings
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300163087

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The Christian Imagination by Willie James Jennings Pdf

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation-social, spatial, and racial-that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.

Author : John Dobree Dalgairns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590281057

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The holy communion: its philosophy, theology and practice by John Dobree Dalgairns Pdf