Disruptive Christian Ethics When Racism and Women's Lives Matter

Name: Disruptive Christian Ethics When Racism and Women's Lives Matter
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ISBN: 9780664229597

ISBN-10: 066422959X

ISBN-13: 9780664229597

Edition: 2006

Authors: Traci C. West

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Bringing to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women, Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins, not with generic philosophical concepts, but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and economically marginalized. She writes, ?The idea that we?ve ?moved beyond? our society's need for concretely identifying these concerns is a costly lie.? Presenting conscience-jarring stories of individual women's experience and endurance of prejudice, violation, and subjugation, West demonstrates how racism can impact key ideas in Christian ethics, influence government policy on welfare, infect…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 1/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Traci C. West is Assistant Professor of Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University.



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Liberating Concepts



Context: Niebuhr's Ethics and Harlem Activists



Terms: Feminist/Womanist Ethics and Sexual Violation



Liberating Practice



Policy: The Bible and Welfare Reform



Liturgy: Church Worship and White Superiority



Leadership: Dissenting Leaders and Heterosexism


Notes


Index