Working Alternatives (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Fordham University Press, New York, 2020
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Paperback. Working Alternatives explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions' implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.The essays in this book-from scholars of business, religious ethics, and history-offer readers practical understanding and analytical leverage over these pressing issues. Modern Catholic social teaching-a 125-year-old effort to apply Christian thinking about the implications of faith for social, political, and economic circumstances-provides the key springboard for these discussions.Contributors: Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Collis Greene, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas Rademacher, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirsten Swinth, Sandra Waddock Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Working Alternatives (Paperback)
- Author
- John C. Seitz
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 082328834X
- ISBN 13
- 9780823288342
- Series
- Book 9 of 15: Catholic Practice in North America
Working Alternatives explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.
The essays in this book―from scholars of business, religious ethics, and history―offer readers practical understanding and analytical leverage over these pressing issues. Modern Catholic social teaching―a 125-year-old effort to apply Christian thinking about the implications of faith for social, political, and economic circumstances―provides the key springboard for these discussions.
Contributors: Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Collis Greene, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas Rademacher, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirsten Swinth, Sandra Waddock
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About the Author
Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theology and Director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.
Gerald J. Beyer is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University. He is the author of Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution.
Alison Colis Greene is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. She is author of No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta (Oxford University Press, 2016), which won the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association and was named a CHOICE
Outstanding Title.
Kathleen Holscher is Associate Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, and holds the endowed chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2012).
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