Desire Market Religion

Author : Jung Mo Sung
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048695

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Desire, Market, Religion by Jung Mo Sung Pdf

Jung Mo Sung has pioneered a theological analysis of economics in his previous publications, developing a penetrating ethico-religious critique of the international capitalist systems, whose institutions he likens to altars. Where ancient idolatry had visible altars, the modern altar of the ‘global market god’, is invisible, but still demands human sacrifices in the name of ‘objective’ desires. Here Sung recovers theology’s relevance for a world where the most dangerous idols – those that sacrifice millions of people upon the altar of wealth – have for too long been ignored by theology. Desire, Market, Religion, Sung investigates themes such as the struggle against social exclusion, the relationship between economics and religion in the 21 century, where global brands and global economies reigns supreme, and theology’s role in the struggle against social exclusion and the giving of hope for plenty, when the reality is scarcity.

Author : Yin-An Chen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725294929

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Toward a Micro-Political Theology by Yin-An Chen Pdf

Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How can we explore the deeper meaning of freedom and liberation? This book begins with a reflection on the "failure" of social movements and revolutions and a review of the methodologies of liberation theologies. Offering a brand-new micro-political theology, it attempts to demonstrate how Michel Foucault can help us recognize the limitations of our standard definitions of liberation. Continuing Foucault's critical engagement with desire, sexuality, and the body, this book opens a fresh dialogue between Althaus-Reid's indecent theology, Latin American liberation theology, and radical orthodoxy, leading to an exploration of how that dialogue can remind us that spirituality and the transformative practice of the self can themselves be fully political. It also urges prayer as both the radical root of political resistance and its action.

Author : Clive Erricker,Judith Lowndes,Elaine Bellchambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136909306

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Primary Religious Education – A New Approach by Clive Erricker,Judith Lowndes,Elaine Bellchambers Pdf

The role of Religious Education within the primary school and how it should be implemented has been the subject of worldwide debate. Responding to the delivery of the non-statutory framework for RE and the recent emphasis on a creative primary curriculum Primary Religious Education - A New Approach models a much needed pedagogical framework, encouraging conceptual enquiry and linking theory to its implementation within the wider curriculum in schools. The book outlines this new conceptual approach to Religious Education and is based upon the Living Difference syllabus successfully implemented in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and Westminster. It demonstrates how to implement the requirements of the new QCDA curriculum and Ofsted criteria for effective RE and is rapidly gaining both national and international support. Through this approach, Religious Education is discussed within the larger context of primary education in the contemporary world. This book will help you to teach RE in a creative way in the primary classroom by providing: historical commentaries an overview of existing approaches case studies based upon developments in religious literacy connections to initiatives such as Every Child Matters and cross-curricular links to other areas of the curriculum, including PSHE. With an all-encompassing global context, this book provides tutors, students and practicing teachers with a firm basis for developing their thinking about the subject of RE, how it is placed in the primary curriculum and how it may be successfully implemented in schools.

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674973152

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The Market as God by Harvey Cox Pdf

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox’s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world’s problems—widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty—are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.

Author : John Frederick,Eric Lewellen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532609367

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The HTML of Cruciform Love by John Frederick,Eric Lewellen Pdf

The topic of the Internet is vastly underrepresented in the current literature on the intersection of technology and theology. Studies on Internet theology are certainly viewed as a topic of “special interest,” relevant—it might be thought—only to eccentric academics and tech geeks. Yet, this book contends that there is no topic more pertinent to our daily walk as contemporary followers of Jesus Christ than the theological implications of the Internet. The twelve essays of this volume, though standalone pieces, also work in conjunction to investigate the themes of community and character formation in the digital realm. A host of interrelated sub-themes are represented in the book, including the application of patristic theology to contemporary Internet praxis, a demonology of the Internet, virtue ethics in cyberspace, and studies that consider the implications of Internet technology on aesthetics, personhood, and the self. Together, the chapters work toward a collaborative, constructive, cruciform theology of the Internet. The Internet is more than a supplementary component to our personal lives; rather, it is a medium of vital connection for the digital communion of the saints through the HTML of cruciform love.

Author : Nestor Miguez,Joerg Rieger,Jung Mo Sung
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334043225

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Beyond the Spirit of Empire by Nestor Miguez,Joerg Rieger,Jung Mo Sung Pdf

How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? This title analyzes the global empire in its political and economic dimensions, in its symbolic constructions of power, and in its general assumptions often taken for granted.

Author : Scott Cowdell,Chris Fleming,Joel Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441165053

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Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 1 by Scott Cowdell,Chris Fleming,Joel Hodge Pdf

Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of René Girard's mimetic theory. The collection showcases the work of outstanding scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying and developing Girard's insights in a variety of fields. Girard's mimetic insight has provided a fruitful way for different disciplines, such as literature, anthropology, theology, religion studies, cultural studies, and philosophy, to engage on common anthropological ground, with a shared understanding of the human person. The aim of this edited collection is to present this interdisciplinary work and to illustrate how Girard's insights provide fertile ground for bringing together disparate disciplines in a shared purpose. As academic work on Girard's insights is growing, this collection would meet the need to show the critical, interdisciplinary applications of these insights.

Author : James Weir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503355548

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The Psychical correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire by James Weir Pdf

Author : Daniel M. Bell Jr.
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801035732

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The Economy of Desire by Daniel M. Bell Jr. Pdf

In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.

Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334047667

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Controversies in Interreligious Dialogue and the Theology of Religions by Paul Hedges Pdf

A challenging controversial discussion of the current state of the debate about Christianity and other world faiths.

Author : F. Roden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230513044

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Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture by F. Roden Pdf

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological discourses. Positing Catholicism as complementary to classical Greece, he challenges the separatism of sexuality and religion in critical practice. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde, and Michael Field amongst others, Same-Sex Desire claims a new literary history, bringing together gay studies and theology in Victorian literature.

Author : Daniel M. Jr. Bell
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441240415

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The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture) by Daniel M. Jr. Bell Pdf

In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.

Author : Wyndy Corbin Reuschling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608998654

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Desire for God and the Things of God by Wyndy Corbin Reuschling Pdf

For many Christians, spirituality and ethics are in separate mental and experiential compartments. Spirituality may be understood as an inner experience, while ethics is focused on decisions or positions on issues. Both of these views reduce spirituality and morality in Christian faith and practice, and ignore the centrality of desire for God and the things of God as key focal points for spiritual and moral formation. These aspects of Christian formation must be located in their scriptural and theological contexts in order to understand more fully what God desires for human life. This focus on desire provides content and context to Christian spirituality and morality. We are drawn outward to focus on God and the good of others while we learn to embody virtues, such as compassion, courage, self-control, gratitude, humility, and hope. Practices are crucial ways by which we learn to incarnate our ultimate desire of love for God and for what God desires in the pursuit of justice and goodness for all creation. In so doing, practices enable us to more fully integrate spiritual and moral growth in the processes of our desire for God and the things of God.

Author : W. Travis McMaken
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506438528

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Our God Loves Justice by W. Travis McMaken Pdf

Helmut Gollwitzer was a direct heir of the theological legacy of the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth. More than any of Barth‘s other interpreters, Gollwitzer embraced and extended the sociopolitical impulses and implications within Barth‘s theology. In this, Gollwitzer embodies a salient and necessary alternative in the American context of increasingly intertwined theological and political discourses. This volume, the first book-length study of Gollwitzer available in English, provides a helpful introduction to the life, theology, and political thought of this crucial theologian and public intellectual.

Author : William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467438292

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Being Consumed by William T. Cavanaugh Pdf

Should Christians be for or against the free market? For or against globalization? How are we to live in a world of scarcity? William Cavanaugh uses Christian resources to incisively address basic economic matters -- the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity -- arguing that we should not just accept these as givens but should instead change the terms of the debate. Among other things, Cavanaugh discusses how God, in the Eucharist, forms us to consume and be consumed rightly. Examining pathologies of desire in contemporary "free market" economies, Being Consumed puts forth a positive and inspiring vision of how the body of Christ can engage in economic alternatives. At every turn, Cavanaugh illustrates his theological analysis with concrete examples of Christian economic practices.