03742nam 2200637Ia 450 991081709050332120230607213442.00-7914-8965-50-585-44415-3(CKB)111056486601238(OCoLC)61367495(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587240(SSID)ssj0000224963(PQKBManifestationID)11190762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224963(PQKBWorkID)10211030(PQKB)10566648(MiAaPQ)EBC3408041(OCoLC)52205536(MdBmJHUP)muse5816(Au-PeEL)EBL3408041(CaPaEBR)ebr10587240(DE-B1597)682690(DE-B1597)9780791489659(EXLCZ)9911105648660123820010730d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPostmodernism and public policy[electronic resource] reframing religion, culture, education, sexuality, class, race, politics, and the economy /John B. Cobb, JrAlbany State University of New York Pressc20021 online resource (225 p.) SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern ThoughtSUNY series in constructive postmodern thoughtBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5165-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought -- Introduction -- Can Christians Contribute to the Postmodern World? -- Religious Pluralism and Truth -- Culture and Education -- Gender and Sexuality -- Nature, Community, and the Human Economy -- Governance -- Race and Class -- Ethics and Pluralism -- Notes -- Note on Supporting Center -- Index -- SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern ThoughtOne of America's preeminent systematic theologians, John B. Cobb Jr. examines a range of social issues in his latest groundbreaking work, Postmodernism and Public Policy. Cobb uses a naturalistic postmodern perspective to make constructive proposals about a wide range of topics in the public eye.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.Postmodern theologyChristianity and politicsPostmodernismPolitical aspectsPostmodern theology.Christianity and politics.PostmodernismPolitical aspects.146/.7Cobb John B567925MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817090503321Postmodernism and public policy3951305UNINA