Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society - From Enemy to Adversary

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Pragmatist Repertoires: 1. The difficulty of imagining other persons, re-imagined: moral imagination as a tool for transforming conflict; 2. Turning the searchlight inward: cultivating the virtues of moral imagination; 3. To let suffering speak: love, justice, and hope against hope; 4. The prophet and the president: prophetic rage in the age of Obama; 5. Testing the spirits: discerning true prophecy from false; 6. 'Dismantling the master's house': using the system to transform the system; Part II. Beyond American Intolerance: 7. Giving religious intolerance its due: agonistic respect in a post-secular society; 8. Looking it up in your gut?: Visceral politics and healthy conflict in the tea party era; 9. Islamophobia, American style: tolerance as American exceptionalism, and the prospects for strenuous pluralism; Conclusion.

About the author

Jason A. Springs is Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Springs's articles appear in the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal for the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Religion, and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He is the author of Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology (2010), and co-author (with Atalia Omer) of Religious Nationalism: A Reference Handbook (2013).

Summary

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice, rather than viewed mainly as a source of aversion that needs to be rooted out or resolved once and for all.

Product details

• Authors: Jason A Springs, Jason A. Springs, Jason A. (University of Notre Dame Springs, Springs Jason A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108440158
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44015-8
• No. of pages: 367
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, RELIGION / Ethics, Religion - Christian Life, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Philosophy of religion, Ethical issues and debates