Working Alternatives: American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy (Catholic Practice in North America) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082328834X ISBN 13: 9780823288342

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Working Alternatives explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.
The essays in this book―from scholars of business, religious ethics, and history―offer readers practical understanding and analytical leverage over these pressing issues. Modern Catholic social teaching―a 125-year-old effort to apply Christian thinking about the implications of faith for social, political, and economic circumstances―provides the key springboard for these discussions.
Contributors: Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Collis Greene, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas Rademacher, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirsten Swinth, Sandra Waddock

About this title

About the Authors

John C. Seitz is a scholar of U.S. religion. He serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and as an Associate Director for the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.

Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theology and Director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.

Gerald J. Beyer is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University. He is the author of Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution.

Alison Colis Greene is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. She is author of No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta (Oxford University Press, 2016), which won the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association and was named a CHOICE
Outstanding Title.

Kathleen Holscher is Associate Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, and holds the endowed chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082328834X
• ISBN 13: 9780823288342
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Seitz John C., Firer Hinze Christine