Description
Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to consider one of the most pressing issues of our time: increasing inequalities of income and wealth that grate against justice and erode the bonds that hold society together. The contributors think through different religious traditions to understand and address inequality. They make practical proposals in relation to concrete situations like mass incarceration and sweatshops. They also explore the inner experience of life in a society marked by inequality, tracing the contours of stress, hopelessness and a restless lack of contentment. This book honors the work of Jon P. Gunnemann, who has been a leading scholar at the intersections of religion and economics.
Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of religion and economics. It will be useful to policy-makers and activists seeking a more thorough understanding of the role of religion and theology in public life.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Robert P. Jones and Ted A. Smith
Thinking with Traditions
Chapter 1: The Little Commonwealth: The Family as Matrix of Markets and Morality in Early Protestantism
John Witte, Jr. and Justin J. Latterell
Chapter 2: When Ancient Teachings Meet Modern Problems: Jewish Approaches to Poverty, Inequality, and the Market
William A. Galston
Chapter 3: Election, Selection, and Distinction: Paradoxes of Grace, Clan, and Class
Timothy P. Jackson
Chapter 4: Pope Francis, Catholic Social Thought, and the Rejection of Fear
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Moral Sentiments
Chapter 5: More Than Enough: Contentment and the Dominance of the Economic Sphere
Christine D. Pohl
Chapter 6: Stress
Julie Meadows
Chapter 7: Riots and Rip-Offs in Baltimore: Toward a Theology of Hopelessness
Miguel A. De La Torre
For the Love of the World
Chapter 8: Wasting Human Lives: Hyper-Incarceration in the United States
Elizabeth M. Bounds
Chapter 9: Challenging a New Frontier of Market Morality: The Case of Sweatshop Economics
Keri Day
Chapter 10: Wage Against the Machine: Wage Activism, Worker Justice, and Disruptive Jesus in the Age of Advanced Capitalism
C. Melissa Snarr
Chapter 11: Speak Up, Judge Righteously, Stand with the Poor: The Jewish Imperative for Social Justice
Jonah Dov Pesner
Public Theology and the Common Good
Chapter 12: America, Land of the Free and Home of the Poor: Inequality as a Way of Life
Darryl M. Trimiew
Chapter 13: The Integrity of the Church in a Divided Society
Steven M. Tipton
Index
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