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Religion and Social Justice

Author : S. Thakur
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374441
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Justice written by S. Thakur and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-10-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical examination of the relationship between religion and social justice. Its main thesis is that, since the primary purpose of religion is the moral and spiritual transformation of human nature, it ought not to be construed as a direct instrument of social justice on earth - as it is by Liberation theologians, for example, as well as by many liberal Christians and Jews. Indirectly, however, religion may well be a pre-condition of social justice. For it can be argued that, without the counteracting effects of the moral and spiritual values prescribed by religion, the liberal vision of individual rights and social justice may be self-defeating. Humanity is best served if this liberal vision is counterbalanced by the completely contrary utopia enshrined in the biblical idea of the kingdom of God, and its equivalents in the other great religions of the world.

Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views

Author : Vic McCracken
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623561191
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views written by Vic McCracken and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Judeo-Christian tradition testifies to a God that cries out, demanding that justice "roll down like waters, righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). Christians agree that being advocates for justice is critical to the Christian witness. And yet one need not look widely to see that Christians disagree about what social justice entails. What does justice have to do with healthcare reform, illegal immigration, and same-sex marriage? Should Christians support tax policies that effectively require wealthy individuals to fund programs that benefit the poor? Does justice require that we acknowledge and address the inequalities borne out of histories of gender and ethnic exclusivity? Is the Christian vision distinct from non-Christian visions of social justice? Christians disagree over the proper answer to these questions. In short, Christians agree that justice is important but disagree about what a commitment to justice means. Christian Faith and Social Justice makes sense of the disagreements among Christians over the meaning of justice by bringing together five highly regarded Christian philosophers to introduce and defend rival perspectives on social justice in the Christian tradition. While it aspires to offer a lucid introduction to these theories, the purpose of this book is more than informative. It is purposefully dialogical and is structured so that contributors are able to model for the reader reasoned exchange among philosophers who disagree about the meaning of social justice. The hope is that the reader is left with a better understanding of range of perspectives in the Christian tradition about social justice.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice

Author : Michael D. Palmer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111957210X
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice by : Michael D. Palmer

Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice written by Michael D. Palmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice brings together a team of distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and comparative account of social justice in the major religious traditions. The first publication to offer a comparative study of social justice for each of the major world religions, exploring viewpoints within Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism Offers a unique and enlightening volume for those studying religion and social justice - a crucially important subject within the history of religion, and a significant area of academic study in the field Brings together the beliefs of individual traditions in a comprehensive, explanatory, and informative style All essays are newly-commissioned and written by eminent scholars in the field Benefits from a distinctive four-part organization, with sections on major religions; religious movements and themes; indigenous people; and issues of social justice, from colonialism to civil rights, and AIDS through to environmental concerns

Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God

Author : Dawid Bunikowski
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030354849
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God by : Dawid Bunikowski

Download or read book Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God written by Dawid Bunikowski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relation between religion and jurisprudence, God, and peace respectively. It argues that in order to elucidate the possible role religion can play in the contemporary world, it is useful to analyse religion by associating it with other concepts. Why peace? Because peace is probably the greatest promise made by religions and the greatest concern in the contemporary world. Why jurisprudence? Because, quoting Kelsen’s famous book "Peace through Law", peace is usually understood as something achievable by international legal instruments. But what if we replace "Peace through Law" with "Peace through Religion"? Does law, as an instrument for achieving peace, incorporate a religious dimension? Is law, ultimately, a religious and normative construction oriented to peace, to the protection of humanity, in order to keep humans from the violence of nature? Is the hope for peace rational, or just a question of faith? Is religion itself a question of faith or a rational choice? Is the relatively recent legal concept of “responsibility to protect” a secular expression of the oldest duty of humankind? The book follows the structure of interdisciplinary research in which the international legal scholar, the moral philosopher, the philosopher of religion, the theologian, and the political scientist contribute to the construction of the necessary bridges. Moreover, it gives voice to different monotheistic traditions and, more importantly, it analyses religion in the various dimensions in which it determines the authors' cultures: as a set of rituals, as a source of moral norms, as a universal project for peace, and as a political discourse.

GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel B: Religion, Philosophy and Social Justice Through Christianity

Author : Gordon Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198370420
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel B: Religion, Philosophy and Social Justice Through Christianity written by Gordon Reid and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a brand new approach to the study of Christianity which has been developed in close consultation with teachers and religious organisations for the new Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies specification B. Assessment guidance runs throughout, offering revision checklists, practice questions and sample answer activities.

Religion and Social Justice

Author : Shivesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312159368
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (593 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Social Justice by : Shivesh Chandra Thakur

Download or read book Religion and Social Justice written by Shivesh Chandra Thakur and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Justice

Author : Michael Baur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889680521
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Social Justice written by Michael Baur and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethics and Social Justice

Author : Howard Evans Kiefer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950541
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Social Justice written by Howard Evans Kiefer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by philosopher Sidney Hook as "a landmark in the history of American philosophy," the International Philosophy Year in 1967-68 brought seventy of the Western world's most distinguished philosophers to the State University College at Brockport for a series of fourteen conferences devoted to different areas of philosophic inquiry. Contemporary Philosophic Thought, which records the original papers of these conferences in four volumes, stands not only as a major contribution to philosophy, but also as a wide survey of the range of conceptual problems that philosophers are working to solve. Vol. 1, Language, Belief, and Metaphysics, is addressed to problems of logic and language. Contributors discuss the nature of belief and present theories on the concept of the world and on identity through time. Vol. 2, Mind, Science, and History, focuses on the mind and related issues. Scientists and historians join philosophers in considering problems that bear upon their disciplines. Vol. 3, Perspectives in Education, Religion, and the Arts, discusses philosophy as related to cultural change, the changing aims of education, and religion. The philosophy of art is explored from varying viewpoints of genre, style, poetics, aesthetics, rhetoric, and communication. Vol. 4, Ethics and Social Justice, takes up moral and legal issues with essays on human rights and on philosophy as applied to practice.

Christian Faith and Social Justice

Author : Vic McCracken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501388330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith and Social Justice written by Vic McCracken and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Judeo-Christian tradition testifies to a God that cries out, demanding that justice "roll down like waters, righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). Christians agree that being advocates for justice is critical to the Christian witness. And yet one need not look widely to see that Christians disagree about what social justice entails. What does justice have to do with healthcare reform, illegal immigration, and same-sex marriage? Should Christians support tax policies that effectively require wealthy individuals to fund programs that benefit the poor? Does justice require that we acknowledge and address the inequalities borne out of histories of gender and ethnic exclusivity? Is the Christian vision distinct from non-Christian visions of social justice? Christians disagree over the proper answer to these questions. In short, Christians agree that justice is important but disagree about what a commitment to justice means. Christian Faith and Social Justice makes sense of the disagreements among Christians over the meaning of justice by bringing together five highly regarded Christian philosophers to introduce and defend rival perspectives on social justice in the Christian tradition. The positions advocated and critiqued are: libertarianism, political liberalism, liberation theology, feminism, and virtue ethics. While it aspires to offer a lucid introduction to these theories, the purpose of this book is more than informative. It is purposefully dialogical and is structured so that contributors are able to model for the reader reasoned exchange among philosophers who disagree about the meaning of social justice. The hope is that the reader is left with a better understanding of range of perspectives in the Christian tradition about social justice.

Social Justice and the Christian Church

Author : Ronald H. Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and the Christian Church written by Ronald H. Nash and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian church's interest in social justice is a subject that invites careful philosophical investigation. For example, do theologians who espouse social justice have a clear and defensible concept of the justice in view? Do theologians who pass moral judgement on socialism or capitalism have enough grounding in economics to know what they're talking about?

Justice and Christian Ethics

Author : E. Clinton Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521496391
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Justice and Christian Ethics written by E. Clinton Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice and Christian Ethics is a study in the meaning and foundations of justice. Separate chapters are devoted to major philosophical and religious traditions that have shaped the idea and practice of justice in the West. These include the classical tradition of virtue (Aristotle and Aquinas), biblical ideas of covenant and the righteousness of God, Puritanism, and John Locke. The author develops a covenantal theory of justice that provides important religious resources for the renewal and transformation of justice in society

Economy, Difference, Empire

Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149840
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Economy, Difference, Empire written by Gary J. Dorrien and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics--social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology--Gary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and politics of economic justice, racial and gender justice, and antimilitarism, making a constructive case for economic democracy, along with a liberationist understanding of racial and gender justice and an anti-imperial form of liberal internationalism. In Dorrien's view, the three major discourse traditions of progressive Christian social ethics share a fundamental commitment to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. His reflections on these topics feature innovative analyses of major figures, such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Burnham, Norman Thomas, and Michael Harrington, and an extensive engagement with contemporary intellectuals, such as Rosemary R. Ruether, Katie Cannon, Gregory Baum, and Cornel West. Dorrien also weaves his personal experiences into his narrative, especially his involvement in social justice movements. He includes a special chapter on the 2008 presidential campaign and the historic candidacy of Barack Obama.

Rawls and Religion

Author : Tom Bailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538391
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Rawls and Religion written by Tom Bailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabilizing potentials. It has therefore been criticized by defenders of religion for marginalizing and alienating the wealth of religious sensibilities, voices, and demands now present in contemporary liberal societies. In this anthology, established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory to show they in fact offer sophisticated resources for accommodating and responding to religions in liberal political life. The chapters reassert the subtlety, openness, and flexibility of his sense of liberal "respect" and "consensus," revealing their inclusive implications for religious citizens. They also explore the means he proposes for accommodating nonliberal religions in liberal politics, developing his conception of "public reason" into a novel account of the possibilities for rational engagement between liberal and religious ideas. And they reevaluate Rawls's liberalism from the "transcendent" perspectives of religions themselves, critically considering its normative and political value, as well as its own "religious" character. Rawls and Religion makes a unique and important contribution to contemporary debates over liberalism and its response to the proliferation of religions in contemporary political life.

GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel B: Religion, Philosophy and Social Justice Through Islam

Author : Waqar Ahmedi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198370437
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel B: Religion, Philosophy and Social Justice Through Islam written by Waqar Ahmedi and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a brand new approach to the study of Islam which has been developed in close consultation with teachers and religious organisations for the new Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies specification B. Assessment guidance runs throughout, offering revision checklists, practice questions and sample answer activities.

Authentic Social Justice

Author : Christopher Cone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998280578
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Social Justice written by Christopher Cone and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic Social Justice affirms the equality of all and the need for justice for all by examining the implications of a Biblical approach to socio-political issues, including foundations for individual rights, life and death, gender, equality, and sexuality, racial justice, and environmental ethics. Authentic Social Justice explains that the Biblical model results in a kind of social justice that is authentic in a way that we were all created to enjoy.

A Theory of Justice

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042603
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Justice written by John RAWLS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Augustine and Social Justice

Author : Teresa Delgado
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498509185
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Augustine and Social Justice written by Teresa Delgado and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus of writings—from his Confessions to the City of God— with an eye to the following question: how can this early church father so foundational to Christian doctrine and teaching inform our twenty-first century context on how to create and sustain a more just and equitable society? In his own day, Augustine spoke to conditions of slavery, conflict and war, violence and poverty, among many others. These conditions, while reflecting the characteristics of our technological age, continue to obstruct our collective efforts to bring about the common good for the global human community. The contributors of this volume have taken great care to read Augustine through the lens of his own time and place; at the same time, they provide keen insights and reflections which advance the conversation of social justice in the present.