Good News for Common Goods : Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America

著者名：Markofski, Wes

Oxford University Press（2023/03/03発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197659694
• eISBN：9780197659724

Description

What is the relationship between evangelical Christianity and democracy in America? In Good News for Common Goods, sociologist Wes Markofski explores how multicultural evangelicals across the United States are addressing race, poverty, inequality, politics, and religious and cultural difference in America's increasingly plural and polarized public arena. Based on extensive original research on multicultural evangelicals active in faith-based community organizing, community development, political advocacy, and public service organizations across the country-including over 90 in-depth interviews with racially diverse evangelical and non-evangelical activists, community leaders, and neighborhood residents-Markofski shows how the varieties of public religion practiced by evangelical Christians are not always bad news for non-evangelicals, people of color, and those advancing ethical democracy in the United States.Markofski argues that multicultural evangelicals can and do work with others across race, class, religious, and political lines to achieve common good solutions to public problems, and that they can do so without abandoning their own distinctive convictions and identities or demanding that others do so. Just as ethical democracy calls for a more reflexive evangelicalism, it also calls for a more reflexive secularism and progressivism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Collaboration for Common Goods: Evangelicals and Others Seeking Justice and Power Together Chapter 1: Good News? Common Goods? Multicultural Evangelicalism? Ethical Democracy?Chapter 2: Engaging Race and InequalityChapter 3: Engaging Poverty and InequalityChapter 4: Engaging Politics, Culture, and Religious DifferenceChapter 5: Reflexive Evangelicalism: Learning from Experience and ScriptureChapter 6: Ethical Democracy and Four Modes of Social Reflexivity Conclusion: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Democracy in America Appendix: Multisite Ethnography and the Exceptional Case Method References