Author

Publication

2001-11-01 - State University of New York Press

Language

English

Word Count

51,500 words, Guess

Page Count

206 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100791451666
  • ISBN-139780791451663
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001049331
  • OCLC Control Number47823041
  • OCLC Control Number52205536
and 3 more
  • Better World Books9780791451663
  • Better World BooksO9-AVD-845
  • Open LibraryOL7802635M

Classifications

  • LCCBT83.597 .C63 2002
  • LCCBT83.597.C63 2002
  • LCCBT 83.597 .C63 2002
and 1 more
  • LCCBT83.597 .C63 2002eb

Description

"Postmodernism and Public Policy shows how a postmodern Christianity can contribute positively to thinking about religious and cultural pluralism, and how this can give direction to the educational enterprise. It proposes ways of understanding sex, gender, and race that take diversity seriously without lapsing into a debilitating relativism that inhibits political action. Arguing for a shift from individualism to thinking of persons-in-community, it proposes that the world be organized from the bottom up in communities of communities, and spells out what this implies for the political and economic orders and the relationship between them. Cobb shows that formulations on all these topics can be coherently interconnected and he develops the implications of such thinking for some specific ethical and political issues that now trouble the United States, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and homosexuality."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)PaperbackState University of New York Press2001-11-01

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