An other kingdom departing the consumer culture
"Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consum...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley
[2016]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849084906719 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Signs of the Times Introduction: Context Is Decisive The Landscape of the Market World Enclosure Covenantal versus Contractual Order The Neighborly Covenant Chapter 1. The Free Market Consumer Ideology Scarcity Certainty and Perfection Privatization The Institutional Assumptions Better Management/Technology Is the Fix Interpersonal Is a Problem Competition Trumps Trust Toward a Neighborly Culture A Culture Based on Covenant Chapter 2. Neighborly Beliefs Abundance Mystery Mystery at Work A Place for God Holiness Wilderness Fallibility Failing to Be God Grief The Common Good Chapter 3. Enough Is Enough: Limits of the Market Ideology The Consumer Market Disciplines Surplus Predictability and Control Speed and Convenience The Blanket of Technology The Sale of Convenience Convenience Displaces Capacity Digital Solutions The Meaning of Money Money and the Machine Wishing for Safety, Believing in Growth Competition and Class Class by Design Class Warfare and the Distribution of Wealth The Myth of Individualism Chapter 4. Tentacles of Empire The Corporatization of Schools No View from the Top End of Aliveness Mobility and Isolation Un-Productive Wealth Violence Illusion of Reform Chapter 5. The Common Good Is the New Frontier The Neighborly Covenant The Commons An Alternative Social Order Resisting the Empire Off-Market Possibilities The Neighborly Way The Alternative to Restless Productivity The Shadow Side of Community Chapter 6. The Disciplines of Neighborliness Time A Time for All Things Time Is the Devil Standing in Line Kairos Food Food and Sacred Re-Performance The Local Food Movement Food and Culture Silence Listening Quakers and Time and Listening Sacraments of Silence Covenant: A Vow of Freedom and Faithfulness Covenant and Retributive Justice The Right Use of Money Money and Our Affection for Place A Liturgy for the Common Good Prophetic Possibilities Story as Liturgy and Re-performance The Re-Performing Power of Liturgy Postscript: Beyond Money and Consumption Timing Is Everything Signs of Change Commentaries References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Index About the Authors.
