Pemberton Theology and Civil Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-80669-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

From food banks to migrant welcome committees, and community organisers to internet based campaigners, civil society is central to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of our shared social life.

Prefaced by a foreword by the Rev. Dr Rowan Williams, this book explores contemporary manifestations of the kind of collective action observed in civil society since the 1800s. It then examines civil society as the sum of modern associations which mediate our relationships to the market and the state, but which cannot be identified fully with either the market or the state. Finally, three different perspectives on civil society are presented using insights from theologians such as John Milbank and Georg Hegel.

This is a pertinent topic for contemporary society, and it is explored expertly here by an international panel of contributors. As such, it is an important volume for any scholar of Theology and Religious Studies and their interactions with Sociology and Politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pemberton, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Rev. Dr Rowan Williams,

Introduction: ‘Theories and Theologies of Civil Society’ Charles Pemberton

Part One: Civil Society as a Sphere of Association

Chapter 1: ‘Faith in Action’ Prof. Jane Wills

Chapter 2: ‘When Political Theology takes an Ecclesial turn, Who is Left Out in the Cold?’ Rev. Al Barret

Chapter 3: ‘Exclusion in the Cyber City’ Michael Raubach

Chapter 4: ‘Perspectives of change – faith based organisations and action on climate change’ Anna Huxley

Part Two: Civil Society as a Sphere of Mediation

Chapter 5: ‘Foundation, but Foundation Only: Some considerations about Hegel's account of the relation between Religion and the Modern State.’ Prof. Friedrike Schick

Chapter 6: ‘Theology and Exclusion: From Charity to Advocacy to Deep Solidarity’ Prof. Joerg Rieger

Chapter 7: ‘A Well Ordered Unity under the one God: Migration, Exclusion and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination’ Dr Anna Rowlands

Part Three: Theo-political Re-imaginings of Civil Society

Chapter 8: ‘Can Liberalism Ever Preserve? A Theological Reading of the Politics of Jo Grimmond’ Dr Ben Wood.

Chapter 9: 'With the pertinacity of bloodhounds’: Hegelian comments on an old text of Fr. Daniel Berrigan's’ Rev. Dr. Andrew Shanks

Chapter 10: ‘Faith and the Politics of the Common Good’ Dr Adrian Pabst

Conclusion

Conclusion: New Trajectories and Consolidated Traditions in the Study of Civil Society and Theology Charles Pemberton

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Pemberton is the Horsfall Research Fellow at St Chad’s College, Durham University, UK. He has organised a series of national and international conferences, and has presented papers at the universities across the UK and Europe. He has published in the Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies and Anvil and is an editor of the journal Philosophy Study.