Ethics That Matters

by Riggs, Marcia; Logan, James Samuel

• ISBN13: 9780800619763
• ISBN10: 0800619765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social ethics must be reframed completely. Three questions are at the heart of this vital inquiry: How can moral community flourish in a global context? What kinds of leadership do we need to nurture global moral community? How shall we construe social institutions and social movements for change in the twenty-first century?

Author Biography

Marcia Y. Riggs is J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. James Samuel Logan is associate professor of religion at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Moral Dilemmas
Maps of Meaning: Black Bodies and African Spirituality as African Diaspora Trope	p. 11
Homecoming in the Hinterlands: Ethical Ministries of Mission in Nigeria	p. 23
Women in Rastafari	p. 37
Religious Pluralism in Africa: Insights from Ifa Divination Poetry	p. 51
For Reflection and Study	p. 59
Moral Community
The American Constitution: Its Troubling Religious and Ethical Paradox for Blacks	p. 63
The Challenge of Race: A Theological Reflection	p. 77
Race, Religion, and the Race for the White House	p. 99
For Reflection and Study	p. 121
Moral Discourse
"Who Is Their God?" A Critique of the Church Based on the Kingian Prophetic Model	p. 125
Onward, Christian Soldiers! Race, Religion, and Nationalism in Post-Civil Rights America	p. 139
Overcoming Christianization: Reconciling Spiritual and Intellectual Resources in African American Christianity	p. 159
A Moral Epistemology of Gender Violence	p. 171
For Reflection and Study	p. 185
Moral Vision
An Ecowomanist Vision	p. 189
An American Public Theology in the Absence of Giants: Creative Conflict and Democratic Longings	p. 195
Walking on the Rimbones of Nothingness: Embodied Scholarship for Those of Us Way Down Under the Sun	p. 215
Still on the Journey: Moral Witness, Imagination, and Improvisation in Public Life	p. 229
For Reflection and Study	p. 239
Afterword	p. 241
Notes	p. 243
Indexes	p. 263
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