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Listening to the Spirit

The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-based Community Organizing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Broad-based community organizing (BBCO) is perhaps the most widely used form of political participation supported by American religious institutions today. As organizing groups become more religiously diverse, however, so do the conceptions of sacred value that ground organizing in the first place. In today's political climate what we hold most dear, those sacred values such as human life, a land, or a natural resource may seem to only further entrench us in our enclaves and threaten the solidarity of any constituency. This book tells a different story. People organize to protect and fight for what they hold most dear. Using auto-ethnography from over a decade of interfaith BBCO experiences, Listening to the Spirit makes a case for the political role of sacred values in BBCO, especially as they show up in two organizing practices: the “listening campaign” and the “relational meeting.” Aaron Stauffer argues that by centering sacred values in democratic politics, these organizing practices can be seen as religious practices, and that BBCO can build deeper solidarity through sacred values and relational power. Stauffer offers a social ethical, social practical account of religion and grounds democracy in our diverse religious values. Listening to the Spirit is a work of Christian social ethics in the tradition of the radical social gospel and draws on discussions of racial capitalism, radical democracy, feminist theory, and philosophical theology. By exploring the political role of sacred values in BBCO, the role of religion in organizing becomes clearer and a new political and ecclesiological terrain opens for Christians to understand these practices in ways Christians have traditionally understood through the Holy Spirit.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-22
Mått160 x 226 x 35 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAAR Academy Series
Antal sidor256
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197755525

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Aaron Stauffer is the Director of Online Learning and Associate Director of the Wendland-Cook Program at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, working with the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice. He earned his PhD in social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and has organized with the Industrial Areas Foundation in San Antonio, Texas and Religions for Peace. His work has appeared in Tikkun, Sojourners, The Other Journal, Political Theology, and CrossCurrents, as well as other scholarly and popular publications. He lives in Nashville with his partner, Lauren, and their children Julian Emerson and August Lynn.

AcknowledgementsPreface Part I: Sacred Values and Organizing for PowerIntroduction: Inductive Christian Social Ethics: The Method of the Radical Social GospelChapter 1: Religion, Secularism, and Sacred Value in CounterpublicsChapter 2: Organizing Religious Practices Part II: Why Sacred Values MatterChapter 3: Our Political Relationship with Sacred ValueChapter 4: Radical Democracy and Sacred ValuePart III: Now What? How Organizing and Theology Can Change Going ForwardChapter 5: On Organizing as PracticeChapter 6: On Black Organizing: Capitalist Exploitation, Racial ExpropriationChapter 7: On Churches

“Listening to the Spirit is state of the art and cutting edge, making a rich argument that interfaith community organizing works by evoking and creating sacred value, not by marginalizing faith. The pages of this luminous book radiate Aaron Stauffer's many years of justice organizing and his fusion of social ethics, social theory, political theology, and the burgeoning scholarship on organizing.” Gary Dorrien, Author of American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

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