The idea of "community" is increasingly vital to our individual and social well-being. Yet at the same time, our ordinary communal relations are being eroded by increased social and geographical mobility, lost traditions, and the growing pluralism of society. Examining this renewed desire for community, Coming Together/Coming Apart locates the current problems of society in the conditions of modern capitalism. Arising out of a common matrix of a world in crisis, contemporary religious, social and feminist discussions of community compose an ideological struggle over the reformation of society.
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... finding shared values and community in America comes from valuing our differences and not from a return to the ideology of the melting pot....
–Mark R. Kowalewski, Anglican Theological Review
Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism.
–Journal of the American Academy of Religion
...Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism
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–Journal of the American Academy of Religion
... a fine liberal apporach to and discussion of community ... After reading this book, no one will use the term community again without realizing the complexity of the term.
–Catholic Library World
–Mark R. Kowalewski, Anglican Theological Review
Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism.
–Journal of the American Academy of Religion
...Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism
.
–Journal of the American Academy of Religion
... a fine liberal apporach to and discussion of community ... After reading this book, no one will use the term community again without realizing the complexity of the term.
–Catholic Library World
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Community is, at the moment, a powerful word in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, Martin Luther King, United States, Cornel West, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sharon Welch, David Harvey, Michael Walzer, Glenn Loury, Iris Young, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Protestant Christian, Seyla Benhabib, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Ruth Smith, William Julius Wilson New!
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Community is, at the moment, a powerful word in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, Martin Luther King, United States, Cornel West, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sharon Welch, David Harvey, Michael Walzer, Glenn Loury, Iris Young, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Protestant Christian, Seyla Benhabib, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Ruth Smith, William Julius Wilson New!
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- A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King on 5 pages
- A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. by Martin Luther, Jr. King on 5 pages
- Habermas and the Public Sphere (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Craig Calhoun on 4 pages
- Race Matters by Cornel West on 4 pages
- Altered Landscapes: Christianity in America, 1935-85 by David W. Lotz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America by Tona J. Hangen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) by Kevin J. Vanhoozer on page 120
- Sustainable Diplomacy: Ecology, Religion and Ethics in Muslim-Christian Relations (Culture and Religion in International Relations) by David Joseph Wellman in Back Matter
- Negotiating The Good Life: Aristotle And The Civil Society (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Mark A., M.D. Young in Back Matter
- Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community by Rebecca Anne Allahyari in Back Matter
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