Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology, and the Social Sciences

Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology, and the Social Sciences : An
Analysis of the Contradictions of Modernity at the Turn of the Millennium 
by Andreas Muller, Arno Tausch, Paul Michael Zulehner 

 
 
 
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Hardcover (April 2000) 
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 1560726792 
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Book Description 


At a time of the profound crisis of the world capitalist system, a group of
social scientists and theologians takes up anew the issue of liberation
theology. Having arisen out of the struggle of the poor Churches in the
world's South, its pros and cons dominated the discourse of the Churches
throughout 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 dramatically
changed to become a truly globalized capitalist system in the 1990s. Even in
their wildest imaginations, social scientists from the dependency tradition
and theologians alike would not have predicted for example the elementary
force of the Asian and the Russian crisis of today. The Walls have gone, but
poverty and social polarization spread to the center countries. After having
initially rejected Marxist ideology in many of the liberation theology
documents, the Vatican and many other Christian Church institutions moved
forward in the 1980s 1990s to strongly declare their "preferential option
for the poor". Now, the authors of this book, among them Samir Amin, one of
the founders of the world system approach, take up the issues of this
preferential option anew and arrive at an ecumenical vision of the dialogue
between theology and world system theory at the turn of the new millenium. 


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