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Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent to interdisciplinary theological reflection on place, and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr's articulation of the California Dream.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Anthea M. Hartig, The Smithsonian Museum of American History
1. Interpreting California: An Ever-Challenging Task
Kevin Starr
2. Redeeming the Dream: Revisiting Kevin Starr's California in Theological Perspective
Jason S. Sexton, UCLA
3. The Dream Interrupted: Kevin Starr at The San Francisco Examiner, 1976-83
Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University
4. Race, Spirituality, and the Expansive Pluralism of the California Dream-Turning-to-Reality
Robert Chao Romero, UCLA; Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University, #StopAAPIHate; Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary
5. Sin, Hope, and Pilgrimage in Kevin Starr's Style of American Studies
Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University; Peter Choi, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
6. Kevin Starr's California Dream and the Creation, Destruction, and Redemption of California Landscapes
Megan Kendrick, Woodbury University
7. 'This Could Be Heaven or This Could Be Hell': Kevin Starr's California, Memory, and the Theological Imagination
Cid Gregory Martinez and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego
8. On the Past and Future of Kevin Starr's California
Mike Davis
Select Bibliography
Gary Kurutz, California State Library Foundation
About the author
Jason S. Sexton (Ph.D., St Andrews) is a theologian, social theorist, and cultural historian. He is currently Lecturer in UCLA's Sociology Department and Visiting Research Scholar at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, USA. Before that, he served as interim California State University Associate Dean of Academic Programs and as editor of
Boom California, taught at Cal State Fullerton, and was also a postdoctoral fellow at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Religion, UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Society, UC Riverside's Center for Ideas and Society, and USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He is the author or editor of eight books, among which is
Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California's Culture (Routledge).
Summary
Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent to interdisciplinary theological reflection on place, and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream.
