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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Social Gospel and Niebuhrian Realism | |
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| Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel | |
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| Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism | |
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| The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Social Ethics, and Public Intellectualism | |
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| Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial Justice | |
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| Economic Democracy in Question | |
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| Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism | |
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| Michael Harrington and the "Left Wing of the Possible" | |
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| Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem | |
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| Breaking the Oligarchy: Globalization, Turbo-Capitalism, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy | |
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| Rethinking and Renewing Economic Democracy | |
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| Neoconservatism and American Empire | |
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| The Neoconservative Phenomenon: American Power and the War of Ideology | |
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| Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the Iraq War | |
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| Militaristic Illusions: The Iraq Debacle and the Crisis of American Empire | |
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| Empire in Denial: American Exceptionalism and the Community of Nations | |
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| Social Ethics and the Politics of Difference | |
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| The Feminist Difference: Rosemary R. Ruether and Eco-Socialist Christianity | |
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| Pragmatic Postmodern Prophecy: Cornel West as Social Critic and Public Intellectual | |
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| As Purple to Lavender: Katie Cannon and Womanist Ethics | |
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| Religious Pluralism as a Justice Issue: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Ecumenism | |
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| The Obama Phenomenon and Presidency | |
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| Social Ethics in the Making: History, Method, and White Supremacism | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |