Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives

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

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives

by Keri Day

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137569424
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 11/30/2015
Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 213
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Religious Imagination
1. The Myth of Progress
2. Resisting the Acquiring Mode
3. Loss of the Erotic
4. Love as a Concrete Revolutionary Practice
5. Hope as Social Practice
Conclusion: Radicalizing Hope: Beloved Communities
Bibliography

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'Keri Day insightfully probes the role of religion in neoliberalism, incorporating a fresh, exciting, politicized understanding of the erotic. Trenchant critiques of neoliberalism foreground some of the most socioeconomically vulnerable populations. US womanist and black feminist ideas alongside European theorists productively aid Day's re-envisioning of human flourishing in economic life. Concrete examples and clarity of writing make this a great text for the classroom.' - Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University Theological School, USA


'Day argues persuasively that an appropriate response to neoliberalism requires religious imagination grounded in Jewish, Christian, and black feminist and womanist religio-cultural perspectives. Day envisions local beloved communities as the crux of a new global order. This book can be used in both seminary classrooms and doctoral seminars because Day expertly uses theories and cultural artifacts to craft religious ethical reflection that informs and inspires us to flourish as moral agents and communities in the twenty-first century.' - Marcia Y. Riggs, J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA

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