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Keri Day - Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism - 9781137569424 - V9781137569424
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Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism

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Description for Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism Hardback. This text argues that engaging black feminist and womanist religious perspectives with Jewish and Christian discourses offers more robust religious critiques of alienating modes generated and exacerbated by a neoliberal economy. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM; HRC; HRJ; JFFK; JFSL3; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Series
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137569424
SKU
V9781137569424
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About Keri Day
Keri Day is Associate Professor of Theological and Social Ethics and Director of Black Church Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, USA. Her previous publication includes Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (2012).

Reviews for Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism
“In Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism, Keri Day seeks to describe our world with this economic execration, and proposes that religious responses offer a potential for the restoration of human flourishing in a society increasingly concerned only with the bottom line. … This book is essential reading for, among others, those interested in feminist theology and in critical investigations of capitalism. ... Read more

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