2021 AAR Presidential Address: "Religion, Inequality, and the Will 'to Stop'"
Rising social inequality defines much of our world today, evidenced not only by the disproportionate effects of poverty and climate change but also by the uneven impact of the global pandemic on resourced and under-resourced communities. As scholars, we understand that religion often plays the role...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 3, Pages: 529-538 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
American Academy of Religion
/ Religion
/ Social inequality
/ Racial question
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America NCC Social ethics TK Recent history ZB Sociology |
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Summary: | Rising social inequality defines much of our world today, evidenced not only by the disproportionate effects of poverty and climate change but also by the uneven impact of the global pandemic on resourced and under-resourced communities. As scholars, we understand that religion often plays the role of both hero and villain in our efforts to live justly in the world. Navigating the lived effects of global supremacies can motivate collective action or forms of existential denial that reproduce the status quo. This address asks not what religion can help us do but rather what religion might help us cease to do, "to Stop" and re-evaluate. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfac070 |