Global Capitalism, Lib Theology - Classroom offer now at 39 $

Dear colleagues,

The publishers in New York told us some time ago that our recently published
volume

Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology, and the Social Sciences : AnAnalysis
of the Contradictions of Modernity at the Turn of the Millennium by Andreas
Muller (Editor), Arno Tausch (Editor), Paul M. Zulehner (Editor)
Availability: 
Usually ships within 24 hours from http://www.amazon.com/Hardcover (April
2000) Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 1560726792 

Our Price: 69 $

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is now available for class-room use for orders of 20 copies or more. For 20
copies, there is one copy free for the professor




Book Description 

At a time of the profound crisis of the world capitalist system, a group
ofsocial scientists and theologians takes up anew the issue of
liberationtheology. Having arisen out of the struggle of the poor Churches
in theworld's South, its pros and cons dominated the discourse of the
Churchesthroughout much of the 1970s and 1980s. Then, dependency theory was
considered to be the analytical tool at the basis of liberation theology.But
the world economy - since the Fall of the Berlin Wall - has
dramaticallychanged to become a truly globalized capitalist system in the
1990s. Even intheir wildest imaginations, social scientists from the
dependency traditionand theologians alike would not have predicted for
example the elementaryforce of the Asian and the Russian crisis of today.
The Walls have gone, butpoverty and social polarization spread to the center
countries. After havinginitially rejected Marxist ideology in many of the
liberation theologydocuments, the Vatican and many other Christian Church
institutions movedforward in the 1980s 1990s to strongly declare their
"preferential optionfor the poor". Now, the authors of this book, among them
Samir Amin, one ofthe founders of the world system approach, take up the
issues of thispreferential option anew and arrive at an ecumenical vision of
the dialoguebetween theology and world system theory at the turn of the new
millenium. 

Contributors:Samir Amin, Dakkar, SenegalJung Mo Sung, Sao Paulo,
BrazilAlberto da Silva Moreira, Braganca Paulista, Brazil Andreas Müller,
Bonn, Germany Mansoob Murshed, WIDER, Helsinki, Finland Steffen Flechsig.
Zwickau, Germany, Kuribert Raffer, Vienna, AustriaSeverin Renoldner, Linz,
AustriaRobert J. Ross, Worcester, Mass., USAKrystyna Tausch, Vienna,
AustriaLuis Zambrano, Puno, Peru Paul M. Zulehner, Vienna, Austria

Table of Contents 

        Biographical Sketches           
Pt. 1   Introduction    1       
Ch. 1   Introduction    3       
Pt. 2   Towards an Ecumenical View of Capitalism and the Religions 'of the
Book'   27      
Ch. 2   Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introductory Approach to their
Real or Supposed Specificities by a Non-Theologian      29      
Pt. 3   Formulating a Liberation Theology Agenda of the 1990s and Beyond
45      
Ch. 3   Economics and Theology, Reflections on the Market, Globalization and
the Kingdom of God      47      
Ch. 4   Saint Francis and Capitalist Modernity. A View from the South   61

Ch. 5   Feminism in the Country of Liberation Theology: Peru    79      
Ch. 6   Ethical, Biblical and Theological Aspects of Foreign Debt       91

Ch. 7   Raul Prebisch's Contribution to a Humane World  103     
Pt. 4   The Lessons of 'Critical' Development Research and the Contemporary
Capitalist World System 125     
Ch. 8   Liberation Theology and the Social Sciences: Seven Hypotheses about
The World Capitalist System in Our Age  127     
Ch. 9   Development in the Light of Recent Debates about Development Theory
153     
Ch. 10  New Forms of Dependence in the World System     169     
Pt. 5   The Challenges of Globalization and Transnational Integration   185

Ch. 11  Towards a Theology of the Democratization of Europe     187     
Ch. 12  The Race to the Bottom  199     
Ch. 13  New Departures. On the Social Positioning of the Christian Churches
Before and After Communism in Central and Eastern Europe        215     
Ch. 14  The Church of the Southern Andes in Peru: Its Commitment in Favor of
the Poor        231     
        Statistical Appendix - Poverty, Dependency, Human Right Violations
and Economic Growth in the World System 241     
        Resources for Further Studies   257     
        An Attempt at an Ecumenical and Cross Cultural Bibliography     259

        Index   325     


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Arno Tausch