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Theology in the Capitalocene

Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity

by Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University ...

Series series Dispatches
In times of rising pressures and catastrophes, people yearn for alternatives. So does the planet. Protests are often a start, but rebellion is not revolution, nor does it always lead to transformation.In this incisive and compelling new book, Joerg Rieger takes a new look at the things that cause unease and discomfort in our time, leading to the growing destruction and death of people and the ... Read more

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In times of rising pressures and catastrophes, people yearn for alternatives. So does the planet. Protests are often a start, but rebellion is not revolution, nor does it always lead to transformation.In this incisive and compelling new book, Joerg Rieger takes a new look at the things that cause unease and discomfort in our time, leading to the growing destruction and death of people and the
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Unified We Are a Force

How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities

by Joerg Rieger, Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger ...

The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only when we get unified!In this practical and theological handbook for justice, renowned theologian Joerg Rieger ... Read more

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The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only when we get unified!In this practical and theological handbook for justice, renowned theologian Joerg Rieger
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Jesus vs. Caesar

For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God

by Joerg Rieger ...

When we observe a tension between Jesus and Caesar, we acknowledge that a fundamental tension remains at the heart of Christianity. When this tension is poorly understood, Christians face disastrous consequences. The tension is not between religion and atheism or secularism. Nor is it between organized religion and personal spirituality. The tension is located within the heart of Christianity ... Read more

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When we observe a tension between Jesus and Caesar, we acknowledge that a fundamental tension remains at the heart of Christianity. When this tension is poorly understood, Christians face disastrous consequences. The tension is not between religion and atheism or secularism. Nor is it between organized religion and personal spirituality. The tension is located within the heart of Christianity
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No Religion but Social Religion

Liberating Wesleyan Theology

by Joerg Rieger ...

In the bloody tooth and claw of gritty existence, grace makes all the differenceWith contributions by Paulo Ayres Mattos, Helmut Renders, and José Carlos de Souza, this book invites you to rethink core concepts of the Christian faith in the invigorating, life-giving light of grace that has the power to change everything. We all live with the pressures of life, but those at the margins, at the ... Read more

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In the bloody tooth and claw of gritty existence, grace makes all the differenceWith contributions by Paulo Ayres Mattos, Helmut Renders, and José Carlos de Souza, this book invites you to rethink core concepts of the Christian faith in the invigorating, life-giving light of grace that has the power to change everything. We all live with the pressures of life, but those at the margins, at the
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Faith, Class, and Labor

Intersectional Approaches in a Global Context

Edited by Jin Young Choi, Joerg Rieger ...

Series series Intersectionality and Theology Series
Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresented in the work of scholars of religion, theology, and the Bible. With this volume, an international group of scholars and activists from nine different countries is bringing issues of religion, class, and labor back into conversation. Historians and ... Read more

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Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresented in the work of scholars of religion, theology, and the Bible. With this volume, an international group of scholars and activists from nine different countries is bringing issues of religion, class, and labor back into conversation. Historians and
... Read more
Methodist Revolutions

Evangelical Engagements of Church and World

Edited by Joerg Rieger, Upolu Lumā Vaai ...

Something feels off, and you are not alone in that feeling. Many faithful people across the church are sitting with a quiet but persistent tension between the hope the gospel carries and the reality they encounter week after week in congregational life and in the world beyond it.Methodist Revolutions: Evangelical Engagements of Church and World, edited by Joerg Rieger and Upolu Lumā Vaai, is the ... Read more

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Something feels off, and you are not alone in that feeling. Many faithful people across the church are sitting with a quiet but persistent tension between the hope the gospel carries and the reality they encounter week after week in congregational life and in the world beyond it.Methodist Revolutions: Evangelical Engagements of Church and World, edited by Joerg Rieger and Upolu Lumā Vaai, is the
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Assembling Futures

Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion

by Jennifer Quigley, Catherine Keller, Gary Dorrien, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Marion Grau, Eunchul Jung, Hilary McKane, Marcia Pally, Joerg Rieger0, Daniel A. Siedell1, Devin Singh2 ...

Series series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economyWhat is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these ... Read more

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Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economyWhat is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these
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Liberating People, Planet, and Religion

Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity

by Terra Rowe, Joerg Rieger ...

Series series Religion in the Modern World
There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question ... Read more

$33.99 USD

There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question
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Methodism and American Empire

Reflections on Decolonizing the Church

by David William Scott, Filipe Fernandes R. Maia, Joerg Rieger, Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Joon-Sik Park, Lloyd Nyarota, Israel I. Alvaran, Cristine Carnate-Atrero, Taylor Walters Denyer, Darryl W. Stephens, Jørgen Thaarup ...

Living into a less colonial way of being together.Methodism and American Empire investigates historical trajectories and theological developments that connect American imperialism since World War II to the Methodist tradition as a global movement. The volume asks: to what extent is United Methodists’ vision of the globe marred by American imperialism? Through historical analyses and theological ... Read more

$22.39 USD

Living into a less colonial way of being together.Methodism and American Empire investigates historical trajectories and theological developments that connect American imperialism since World War II to the Methodist tradition as a global movement. The volume asks: to what extent is United Methodists’ vision of the globe marred by American imperialism? Through historical analyses and theological
... Read more
Earthly Things

Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

by Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn, Carol Wayne White ...

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications.
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Religion and Power

by Jione Havea, Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett, Michael Jagessar, M.P. Joseph, Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi, Jooseop Keum, Deenabandhu Manchala, James W. Perkinson0, Y. T. Vinayaraj1, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo2, Joerg Rieger3 ...

Series series Theology in the Age of Empire
Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of a religion in and through the missions of empires. Empires rise and roam with the blessings and ... Read more

$39.99 USD

Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of a religion in and through the missions of empires. Empires rise and roam with the blessings and
... Read more
Theologies on the Move

Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital

by Wanda Deifelt, J. Alice Heo, M. P. Joseph, Deenabandhu Manchala, Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez, Luis N. Rivera-Pagan, George Zachariah, Gemma Tulud Cruz, Marc H. Ellis, Joerg Rieger ...

Series series Decolonizing Theology
Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital speaks to the reality that many religions have developed in motion, with people exploring new boundaries, migrating, and being displaced. Consequently, major religious traditions form as they come into contact with other religions and cultures, typically in situations of struggle and pressure. Due to ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital speaks to the reality that many religions have developed in motion, with people exploring new boundaries, migrating, and being displaced. Consequently, major religious traditions form as they come into contact with other religions and cultures, typically in situations of struggle and pressure. Due to
... Read more

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