ISBN:
9781137290038
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 310 S.
Edition:
1. ed.
Series Statement:
New approaches to religion and power
Series Statement:
New Approaches to Religion and Power Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Transcending Greedy Money : Interreligious Solidarity for Just Relations
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Foundations for a Relational Culture of Life in the Axial Age: Resisting Death-Bringing Ancient and Modern Civilizations; 1 The Emergence and Development of Division of Labor,; 2 The Sociopsychological Effects of the Money Civilization on the Different Classes; 3 The Judeo-Christian Tradition in the Axial Age; 4 Buddhism in the Axial Age; 5 Islam, a Renewal of Axial Age Spirituality; 6 Classical Greek Philosophy; Part 2 Critique of Modernity and a New Critical Thinking
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Basic Characteristics of Modernity: Functional Mechanisms, Efficiency, and the Trivialization of the World8 The Irrationality of the Rationalized: A Methodological Commentary on Instrumental Rationality and Its Totalitarian Character; 9 In the Face of Globalization: The Return of the Repressed Subject; 10 A Critical Theory and a Critique of Mythical Reason; Part 3 Vision and Praxis of Interreligious Solidarity for Life in Just Relations Today; 11 The Vision of Life in Just Relations; 12 Alternative Political Economy: Transformation Strategy and Praxis
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Interreligious Solidarity Practice for Life in Just Relations Today: A New Axial Age?Conclusion; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137290021
URL:
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