Solidarity and suffering : toward a politics of relationality / Douglas Sturm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturm, Douglas.

Series:

SUNY series, religion and American public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Solidarity.

Religion and politics.

Religion and social problems.

Physical Description:

viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Summary:

This book delineates a vision that moves beyond a politics of divisiveness toward a new way of constructing lives together throughout the world. Sturm's "politics of relationality" is an alternative to classical liberalism and cultural conservatism. It calls for mutual respect and creative dialogue, promoting a principle of justice as solidarity. Sturm develops a radically reconstructive approach to a wide range of social issues: human rights, affirmative action, property, corporations, religious pluralism, social conflict, and the environment. Solidarity and Suffering: Toward a Politics of Relationality is infused with a spirituality of compassion, suggesting that, in their core meanings, justice and love coalesce.

Contents:

1. Prelude: Toward a Politics of Relationality 1

I. Human Rights 17

2. The Idea of Human Rights: A Communitarian Perspective 19

3. On the Suffering and Rights of Children: Toward a Theology of Childhood Liberation 39

4. Interlude: Affirmative Action and the Deprivations of Racism 63

II. Economic Relations 71

5. The Meaning and Use of Property 73

6. Corporate Governance and Democracy 123

7. Interlude: The Socialist Vision Revisited 149

III. Religious Commitment 157

8. Religion as Critique and the Critique of Religion: The Problem of the Self in the Modern World 159

9. Crossing the Boundaries: Interreligious Dialogue and the Political Question 181

10. Interlude: Wisdom and Compassion

The Deeper Dimensions of Understanding 201

IV. Social Conflict 207

11. The Politics of Annihilation and the Mission of Higher Education 209

12. On Making Peace: Nonviolence and the Principle of Relationality 229

13. Interlude: Criminality and Community 247

V. Ecological Community 253

14. Ecology and Social Justice: Shattering the Boundaries of Moral Community 255

15. Postlude: Koinonology and the Ecological Principle 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.

ISBN:

0791438694

0791438708

OCLC:

37980664