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Book SynopsisIn the face of globalized ecological and economic crisis, what role does political theology play in formulating the shared good and the sharing of goods? This remarkable collection of essays by philosophers, theologians and religion scholars together rethinks the common, experimentally assembling a transdisciplinary political theology of the earth.
Trade Review"This book marks a watershed moment that effectively redefines the parameters of political theology by expanding and pluralizing it, and it expresses the vibrancy of a pluralist spirituality by infusing it with a process and liberationist sensibility."-Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College "Faced with the neoliberal enclosure and privatization of nearly everything, this collection convokes an array of theists, pantheists, nontheists, and post-theists to theorize the multiplicity of both 'the common' and 'the good.' ... Common Goods provides us with readable, teachable, timely, plugged-in, politically compelling, and intellectually generous theological and para-theological work."-Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Table of Contents1. Editors' Introduction Section One: Planetary Political Theology 2. William E. Connolly, "Process Philosophy and Planetary Politics" 3. John Thatamanil, "How Not to be a Religion: Genealogy, Identity, Wonder" 4. Clayton Crockett, "Non-Theology and Political Ecology: Post-Secularism, Repetition, and Insurrection" 5. Kathryn Tanner, "The Ambiguities of Transcendence" 6. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, "Dreaming the Common Good/s: The Kin-dom of God as a Space of Utopian Politics" 7. Dhawn Martin, "A Cosmopolitical Theology: Engaging 'The Political' as an Incarnational Field of Emergence" Section Two: Economies and Ecologies of (Un)Common Good/s 8. Jeorg Rieger, "Reconfiguring the Common Good and Religion in the Context of Capitalism: Abrahamic Alternatives" 9. Gary Dorrien, "Christian Socialism and the Future of Economic Democracy" 10. Charon Hribar, "The Myth of the Middle: Common Sense, Good Sense, and Rethinking the 'Common Good' in Contemporary U.S. Society" 11. Nimi Wariboko, "Elements of Tradition, Protest, and New Creation in Monetary Systems: A Political Theology of Market Miracles" 12. Elijah Prewitt-Davis, "The Corporation and the Common Good: The Politics of Recognition After the Death of God" 13. An Yountae, "Breaking from Within: The Dialectic of Labor and the Death of God" 14. Anatoli Ignatov, "Thoreau Goes to Ghana: On the Wild and the Tingane" 15. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, "Climate Debt, White Privilege, and Christian Ethics as Political Theology" Section Three: Common Flesh, Common Democracies 16. Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "Between a Rock and an Empty Place: Political Theology and Democratic Legitimacy" 17. Vincent Lloyd, "From the Theopaternal to the Theopolitical: On Barack Obama" 18. Elias Ortega-Aponte, "Democratic Futures In the Shadow of Mass-Incarceration: Towards A Political Theology of Prison Abolition" 19. Sharon Betcher, Rupturing the Concorporeal Commons: On the Psychocultural Symptom of 'Disability' as Life Resentment 20. Karen Bray, "The Common Good of the Flesh: An indecent invitation to William Connolly, Joerg Rieger, and Political Theology" 21. A. Paige Rawson, "A (Socioeconomic) Hermeneutics of Chayim: The Theo-Ethical Implications of Reading with Wisdom" Index of Key Thinkers and Terms
