Overview
- Presents a timely examination of economic ethics
- Gives special attention to rural poverty and its examination of the Black Church’s economic ethic, and its comparative theological analysis of predominant forms of theological engagement with economic justice
- Allows readers to hear the voices of silenced communities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project examines the economic ethics of black churches in the rural South whose congregants and broader communities have long struggled amidst persistent poverty.
Through a case study of communities in Alabama's Black Belt, this book argues that if the economic ethic of the Black Church remains accommodationist, it will continue to become increasingly irrelevant to communities that experience persistent poverty. Despite its historic role in combatting racial oppression and social injustice, the Church has also perpetuated ideologies that uncritically justify unjust social structures. Wilson shows how the Church can shift the conversation and reality of poverty by moving from a legacy of accommodationism and toward a legacy of empoweringliberating economic ethics.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wylin D. Wilson, is Adjunct Professor in the Tuskegee University College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences. She is the former Associate Director of Education at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Ethics & the Black Church
Authors: Wylin D. Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66348-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66347-0Published: 22 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88221-5Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66348-7Published: 07 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion, Business Ethics, Urban Economics