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Catholic Social Activism
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
A history of Catholic social thought
Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception, and divorce. Yet there is a longstanding tradition of progressive Catholic movements in the United States that have addressed a variety of issues from labor, war, immigration, and environmental protection, to human rights, women’s rights, exploitive development practices, and bellicose foreign policies. These Catholic social movements have helped to shift the Church from an institution that had historically supported incumbent governments and political elites to a Church that has increasingly sided with the vulnerable and oppressed.
This book provides a concise history of progressively oriented Catholic Social Thought, which conveys the Catholic Church’s position on a variety of social justice concerns. Sharon Erickson Nepstad introduces key papal encyclicals and other church documents, showing how lay Catholics in the United States have put these ideas into practice through a creative and sometimes provocative political engagement. Nepstad also explores how these progressive movements have pressured the religious hierarchy to respond to pressing social issues, such as women’s ordination, conscription, and the morality of nuclear deterrence policies.
Catholic Social Activism vividly depicts how these progressive movements have helped to shape the religious landscape of the United States, and how they have provoked controversy and debate among Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
Kundenbewertungen
César Chávez, New Sanctuary Movement, Catholic Social Thought, Pope John XXIII, Pope Leo XIII, Dolores Huerta, solidarity, peace movements, Plowshares movement, Central America, Central America solidarity, Witness for Peace, draft board raids, ordination of women, lived religion, Pax Christi, Mary Daly, Rerum Novarum, Pope Pius XI, environmental movement, School of the Americas Watch, immigrant rights, Women-Church, contraception, Pope Francis, draft card burnings, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sanctuary movement, Roman Catholic Womenpriests, nonviolence, just peace, Catholic Worker, reproductive rights, Catholic Climate Change, Pledge of Resistance, immigration, Catholic Social Teachings, liberation theology, Catholic feminism, Laudato Si, Pacem in Terris, just war doctrine, Social Catholicism, pacifism, National Religious Partnership for the Environment, Dorothy Day, Environmentalism, Quadragesimo Anno, United Farm Workers