This book presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors from six global traditions draw on different spiritual concepts to show how friends help us establish diverse societies, healthy ecosystems, trauma healing, inner virtues, social action, and divine connection.
Using a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume explores ethical and doctrinal implications in the social practice of music. Grouped according to the threefold ministry of Christ (prophet, priest, shepherd) the essays discuss a wide range of musics-from medieval chant and psalmody to protest songs, metal, and Daft Punk.
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious ......
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America's political economy the produces the very problems we punish as a society.
Belief in the doctrine of Original Sin is firmly held by many Christians, but it turns out that it's not necessarily biblical. Further, argues Danielle Shroyer, it's bad for people and bad for the church. In Original Blessing, Shroyer shows not only how we got it wrong, but how we can put sin back in its rightful place.
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence explores hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as fundamental traits for artificial intelligence. Incorporating these values into algorithms will minimize AI's biases of technological determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy.
This book discusses how the traditional democratic institutions seem to be falling apart or operate in mutual contradiction in the U.S. Guiding "values" no longer serve the common good but give rise to sharp hostility and violence. The same disarray prevails in international politics. A remedy is desperately needed.
Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker Movement, and Overcoming Otherness
This book is a revisitation of the radical communalism present at the heart of the Catholic Worker Movement as it intersects with ongoing trends in the field of political theology in search of a functional ethical praxis.
Foundations for the Organic Development of Catholic Sexual Doctrine
In Pope Francis, Marriage, and Same-Sex Civil Unions: Foundations for the Organic Development of Catholic Sexual Doctrine, Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler argue for the organic development of Catholic sexual teaching to recognize the morality and sacramentality of opposite-sex and same-sex marriage. They do so on the basis of Pope Francis' ......
