Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century [Hardcover]

Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.Introduction: Academics as Public Intellectuals; Ada Mar?a Isasi-Diaz, Mary McClintock-Fulkerson and Rosemary P. Carbine PART I 1. The Indigenous Dream - A World Without an 'America'; Andrea Smith 2. Race, Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness; James H. Evans, Jr. 3. Pax Americana, Pax Humana; Sharon Welch PART II 4. The United States as a Responsible Member of the Global Community: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness When Militarized 5. Prostitution Matters; K. Christine Pae 6. Living Sustainably toward Social Justice: Asceticism Revisited; Paula M. Cooey 7. 'Dead in the Water&.Again': Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in the 21st Century; Teresa Delgado 8. Welcome to the Great American Middle Class: From the American Dream to Deep Solidarity; Joerg Rieger 9. Political Theology as Reflection on the Arts of Liberatory Politics; Mark Lewis Taylor PART III 10. Naming What We Want: Thoughts on Religious Vocabulary and the Desire for Quality of Life; Anthony B. Pinn 11. Redeeming Equality: Life, Liberty and Alternatives to Obliviousness; Mary McClintock Fulkerson 12. The Political Divide; Stephanie Y. Mitchem 13. Revitalizing U.S. Civil Society by Reconceptualizing Civil Religion and its Virtues; Rosemary P. Carbine Conclusion: Latinas and Latinos Understanding of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; Ada Mar?a Isasi-D?az Afterword

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - what's not to love? Sadly, much hate has been enacted under the auspices of these American ideals. But that's only one side of the stories you will read here. Their other side is about the hunger for life and the struggle for elemelÃN