Transcending Greedy Money [electronic resource] : Interreligious Solidarity for Just Relations /
Duchrow, U.author.
Hinkelammert, F.author.
This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Foundations for a Relational Culture of Life in the Axial Age: Resisting Death-Bringing Ancient and Modern Civilizations; 1 The Emergence and Development of Division of Labor,; 2 The Sociopsychological Effects of the Money Civilization on the Different Classes; 3 The Judeo-Christian Tradition in the Axial Age; 4 Buddhism in the Axial Age; 5 Islam, a Renewal of Axial Age Spirituality; 6 Classical Greek Philosophy; Part 2 Critique of Modernity and a New Critical Thinking
7 The Basic Characteristics of Modernity: Functional Mechanisms, Efficiency, and the Trivialization of the World8 The Irrationality of the Rationalized: A Methodological Commentary on Instrumental Rationality and Its Totalitarian Character; 9 In the Face of Globalization: The Return of the Repressed Subject; 10 A Critical Theory and a Critique of Mythical Reason; Part 3 Vision and Praxis of Interreligious Solidarity for Life in Just Relations Today; 11 The Vision of Life in Just Relations; 12 Alternative Political Economy: Transformation Strategy and Praxis
13 Interreligious Solidarity Practice for Life in Just Relations Today: A New Axial Age?Conclusion; Notes; Index
Includes index.
This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice.
Religion and sociology.
Philosophy.
Spirituality.
Religion.
Religions.
World history.
Sociology of Religion.
History of Philosophy.
Spirituality.
Religious Studies, general.
Comparative Religion.
World History, Global and Transnational History.