Desire, Market, Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desire, Market, Religion write by Jung Mo Sung. This book was released on 2013-01-26. Desire, Market, Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture) write by Daniel M. Jr. Bell. This book was released on 2012-11-01. The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Exquisite Desire
Exquisite Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exquisite Desire write by Carey Ellen Walsh. This book was released on 2000-11-01. Exquisite Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the erotic ideal in ancient IsraelThis provocative work investigates the character of the erotic in writings from ancient Israel and how the erotic is connected to the experience of the divine.
Being Consumed
Being Consumed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being Consumed write by William T. Cavanaugh. This book was released on 2008-03-17. Being Consumed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Market as God
The Market as God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Market as God write by Harvey Cox. This book was released on 2016-09-12. The Market as God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Essential and thoroughly engaging...Harvey Cox’s ingenious sense of how market theology has developed a scripture, a liturgy, and sophisticated apologetics allow us to see old challenges in a remarkably fresh light.” —E. J. Dionne, Jr. We have fallen in thrall to the theology of supply and demand. According to its acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It can raise nations and ruin households, and comes complete with its own doctrines, prophets, and evangelical zeal. Harvey Cox brings this theology out of the shadows, demonstrating that the way the world economy operates is shaped by a global system of values that can be best understood as a religion. Drawing on biblical sources and the work of social scientists, Cox points to many parallels between the development of Christianity and the Market economy. It is only by understanding how the Market reached its “divine” status that can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity. “Cox argues that...we are now imprisoned by the dictates of a false god that we ourselves have created. We need to break free and reclaim our humanity.” —Forbes “Cox clears the space for a new generation of Christians to begin to develop a more public and egalitarian politics.” —The Nation
