A Feminist Ethic of Risk: Revised Edition / Edition 2

by Sharon D. Welch

Overview

A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life orientation for social justice. It directly addresses American and European "middle-class despair" over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle, such as environmental destruction or racism. Her ethic uproots classical assumptions and opens up the possibility of a strong religious vision or "theology of resistance and hope." This new edition includes a new chapter that situates the feminist ethic of risk in relation to other styles and options in religious ethics today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800631857
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/09/2000
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sharon D. Welch is the new Provost of Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago. For many years she was Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is author of After Empire (2004, 978-0-8006-2986-1) and A Feminist Ethic of Risk (2d ed. 2000, 978-0-8006-3185-7).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One: Cultured Despair and the Death of the Moral Imagination

The Ethic of Control

Narratives of Healing and Transformation

Memory and Accountability

Part Two: An Ethic of Risk

A Heritage of Persistence, Imagination, and Solidarity

The Healing Power of Love

Part Three: A Theology for the Bearers of Dangerous Memory

The Ideology of Cultured Despair

An Ethic of Solidarity and Difference

A Theology of Resistance and Hope

Notes

Index