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).
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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