LEADER 03742nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910817090503321 005 20230607213442.0 010 $a0-7914-8965-5 010 $a0-585-44415-3 035 $a(CKB)111056486601238 035 $a(OCoLC)61367495 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587240 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224963 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224963 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10211030 035 $a(PQKB)10566648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408041 035 $a(OCoLC)52205536 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5816 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408041 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587240 035 $a(DE-B1597)682690 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791489659 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486601238 100 $a20010730d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostmodernism and public policy$b[electronic resource] $ereframing religion, culture, education, sexuality, class, race, politics, and the economy /$fJohn B. Cobb, Jr 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aSUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought 225 0$aSUNY series in constructive postmodern thought 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5165-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction to Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought -- $tIntroduction -- $tCan Christians Contribute to the Postmodern World? -- $tReligious Pluralism and Truth -- $tCulture and Education -- $tGender and Sexuality -- $tNature, Community, and the Human Economy -- $tGovernance -- $tRace and Class -- $tEthics and Pluralism -- $tNotes -- $tNote on Supporting Center -- $tIndex -- $tSUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought 330 $aOne 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. 606 $aPostmodern theology 606 $aChristianity and politics 606 $aPostmodernism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPostmodern theology. 615 0$aChristianity and politics. 615 0$aPostmodernism$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a146/.7 700 $aCobb$b John B$0567925 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817090503321 996 $aPostmodernism and public policy$93951305 997 $aUNINA