Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism : Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives / by Keri Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Keri., Author.

Series:

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy.

Sex.

Religion and sociology.

Econometrics.

Christianity.

Economic Policy.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Religion.

Quantitative Economics.

Local Subjects:

Economic Policy.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Religion.

Quantitative Economics.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism offers compelling and intersectional religious critiques of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the normative rationality of contemporary global capitalism that orders people to live by the generalized principle of competition in all social spheres of life. Keri Day asserts that neoliberalism and its moral orientations consequently breed radical distrust, lovelessness, disconnection, and alienation within society. She argues that engaging black feminist and womanist religious perspectives with Jewish and Christian discourses offers more robust critiques of a neoliberal economy. Employing womanist and black feminist religious perspectives, this book provides six theoretical, theologically constructive arguments to challenge the moral fragmentation associated with global markets. It strives to envision a pragmatic politics of hope.

Contents:

Neoliberalism and the religious imagination

The myth of progress

Resisting the acquiring mode

Loss of the erotic

Love as a concrete revolutionary practice

Hope as social practice

Radicalizing hope: beloved communities.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137569431

1137569433