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Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and Occupy Religion shows this role is no less critical today.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Why Occupy Religion?
Chapter 2 We Are the 99 Percent
Chapter 3 The Multitude Springs into Action
Chapter 4 Theology of the Multitude
Chapter 5 Reimagining the God of the Multitude
Chapter 6 Envisioning the Church of the Multitude
Epilogue
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Joerg Rieger is distinguished professor of theology and holds the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies in the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. He is also the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt. He is the author of Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (2022). Terra Schwerin Rowe is associate professor in the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Texas. She is co-director of the AAR seminar, Energy, Extraction, and Religion, on the steering committee of the academy’s Religion and Ecology unit, and a member of the Petrocultures Research Group. She is author of Toward a Better Worldliness: Economy, Ecology, and the Protestant Tradition (2017) and Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology (2023).KWOK Pui-lan is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion.
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Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and Occupy Religion shows this role is no less critical today.
