Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors

Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors
Author: Christine Firer Hinze
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2015
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 1587684799

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Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law

Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law
Author: Mark Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre:
ISBN: 0198873751

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Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law explores the contribution that religious ethics makes to debates on justice in working life. Many faiths include beliefs about the significance of work to human development and the need for work to be performed under conditions that uphold dignity, equality, and solidarity . This book considers how the substantive provisions of labour law reflect prior ethical choices about how workers should be treated, and how beliefs from Catholicism influence these. This book provides a thorough account of the principles found in Catholic Social Teaching (CST), and how these impact human work and labour rights . It tests the contemporary relevance of its principles by applying them to current debates, using EU labour law as a case study. Specifically, it examines CST on the right to a just wage, the right to rest, worker participation, and equality and discrimination. The book finds that CST offers fresh insights on long-standing injustices in the labour market, such as low wages or poor working conditions, and also sheds light on emerging challenges such as ensuring rest in an era of digital connectivity. The book recognizes that tensions arise in areas where the Church's beliefs diverge from those that prevail in a secular understanding of human rights. This is particularly evident in debates relating to equality. It concludes that faith-based perspectives should be included in pluralistic dialogue on the future of labour law.

Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross

Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross
Author: David E. DeCosse
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-06-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666711101

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The United States is in a crisis of freedom. Influenced by neoliberal economics, the concept of freedom has become identified with an abstract, radical individualism disdainful of responsibility to others and to the past. Signs of this crisis crop up everywhere. Some invoke freedom as justification for refusing to wear a mask in a pandemic. Others argue that freedom is an empty word if it’s celebrated apart from an honest engagement with the country’s history of racism. Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross offers a Catholic theological response to this crisis of freedom. Catholic social ethics may be better known for its emphasis on social principles like the common good and solidarity. But developments in Catholic theologies of freedom in the last decades provide fertile ground from which to develop a bold, creative response to this American crisis of freedom. In this book, theologian David DeCosse draws on thinkers ranging from philosopher Amartya Sen to Black Catholic theologian Shawn Copeland to twentieth-century theological giant Karl Rahner in order to reimagine American freedom in light of classic Catholic emphases on embodiment, relationship, history, the good, and God. The result is a Catholic public theology that provides a redemptive path forward in an age of crisis.

Cathonomics

Cathonomics
Author: Anthony M. Annett
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1647125049

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Radical Sufficiency

Radical Sufficiency
Author: Christine Firer Hinze
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1647120276

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In this timely book, Christine Firer Hinze looks back at Monsignor John A. Ryan’s American Catholic defense of worker justice and a living wage, advancing his efforts for an action-oriented livelihood agenda that situates US working families’ economic pursuits within a comprehensive commitment to sustainable, “radical sufficiency” for all.

Human Dependency and Christian Ethics

Human Dependency and Christian Ethics
Author: Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107168899

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This book engages Christian love theologies, feminist economics, and political theory to identify elements of a Christian ethic of dependent care relations.

Sex, Love, and Families

Sex, Love, and Families
Author: Jason King
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814687954

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2021 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in theology 2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in marriage and family living Six years into the papacy of Pope Francis, Catholics are still figuring out how to respond to his image of the church as a field hospital —a church that goes into the streets rather than remaining locked up behind closed doors. Marriage and family are primary sites of the field hospital, called to meet people's need for healing and accompaniment with compassion and love. The authors of this collection —all lay, a mix of single and married, traditional and progressive Catholics —take up this work. They offer practical wisdom from and critical engagement with the Catholic tradition but avoid rehashing decades-old theological debates. Instead, their essays engage with and respond to realities shaping contemporary family life, like religious pluralism, technology, migration, racism, sex and gender, incarceration, consumerism, and the call to holiness. The result is a collection that envisions ways that families can be places of healing and love in and for the world. List of contributors: Jennifer Beste Megan K. McCabe Elizabeth Antus Kathryn Lilla Cox Kent Lasnoski Hoon Choi Cristina L. H. Traina Craig A. Ford Jr. Bridget Burke Ravizza Julie Donovan Massey Emily Reimer-Barry Richard Gaillardetz Timothy O'Malley Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar Kathryn Getek-Solis Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman Jana Marguerite Bennett Victor Carmona Gemma Tulud Cruz Daniel Olsen Thomas Beaudoin Christine Firer Hinze David Cloutier Marcus Mescher Sue Muldoon Timothy Muldoon Mary M. Doyle-Roche Jason King Julie Rubio

Send Lazarus

Send Lazarus
Author: Matthew T. Eggemeier
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0823288021

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A critique of and response to systems founded on indifference toward the needs and desires of people and God’s creation. Today’s regnant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Send Lazarus’s theological critique wends its way through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation, all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism. Praise for Send Lazarus “One of the best theological engagements with economics available. The critique of neoliberalism is spot-on: It is a type of class warfare that does not shrink the state but empowers it to protect the market from the people. The market is sublime and cannot be controlled by people. Neoliberalism is thus a type of theology for a deified market, and Eggemeier and Fritz respond with a compelling Christian theology of a God who wants mercy, not sacrifice. If you want a vision of a world beyond today’s suffering and inequality, read this book.” —William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University “In Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism, they propose the popular devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a counterpractice for resisting the heartlessness of neoliberalism and throwaway culture . . . Weaving together Pope Francis, St. Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Walter Kasper, and Jesuit Father Karl Rahner, all of whom write of their strong devotion to the Sacred Heart, Eggemeier and Fritz prompted me to reconsider the devotion's relevance in today's world.” —Meghan J. Clark, US Catholic “Required reading for those interested in theological responses to neoliberalism or concerned with social injustice. Highly recommended.” —Choice

Polarization in the US Catholic Church

Polarization in the US Catholic Church
Author: Mary Ellen Konieczny
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814646905

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It is no secret: the body of Christ in the United States is broken. While universality—and unity amid diversity—is a fundamental characteristic of Roman Catholicism, all-too-familiar issues related to gender, sexuality, race, and authority have rent the church. Healthy debates, characteristic of a living tradition, suffer instead from an absence of genuine engagement and dialogue. But there is still much that binds American Catholics. In naming the wounds and exploring their social and religious underpinnings, Polarization in the US Catholic Church underscores how shared beliefs and aspirations can heal deep fissures and the hurts they have caused. Cutting across disciplinary and political lines, this volume brings essential commentary in the direction of reclaimed universality among American Catholics.

Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality

Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality
Author: Kate Ward
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Economic growth, development, planning
ISBN: 303842577X

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality" that was published in Religions