Neoliberal Capitalism and the Corruption of Society: A Pastoral Political Analysis
In this article, I juxtapose religious and neoliberal capitalistic symbol systems to highlight the existential flaws in capitalism and how it undermines community and society. More particularly, I contend that religious (in this article, Judeo-Christian) and religiously inflected humanist symbol sys...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2016
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Pastoral psychology
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CA Christianity HA Bible NCC Social ethics NCE Business ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Common Good
B Neoliberal capitalism B Corruption B Relational justice B GEMEINSCHAFT & Gesellschaft (Sociology) B Pastoral Psychology B Christianity B Semiotics B Social aspects B Neoliberalism B Care B Capitalism |
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| Summary: | In this article, I juxtapose religious and neoliberal capitalistic symbol systems to highlight the existential flaws in capitalism and how it undermines community and society. More particularly, I contend that religious (in this article, Judeo-Christian) and religiously inflected humanist symbol systems possess core values of care, community (space of appearances and the common good), and relational justice that ideally order social life, institutions, and subjectivity. I argue that these core values and practices, which are woven into the semiotic web of Judeo-Christian religions, are missing from the complex web of symbols and narratives that undergird neoliberal capitalism. I argue further that when neoliberal capitalism becomes a hegemonic way of organizing society, there is an attending corruption of social care, the common good, and relational justice. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-013-0577-x |