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Title

God loves diversity and justice : progressive scholars speak about faith, politics, and the world / edited by Susanne Scholz.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Scholz, Susanne, 1966-
• Scholz, Susanne, 1963-

Description

viii, 240 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the declaration that "God loves diversity and justice." The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the twelve contributors and two respondents deepen the conversation. It considers such questions as the following: Do we affirm or challenge this theological statement? Do we concentrate on "God" in our response or do we interrogate what diversity and justice mean in light of God's love for diversity and justice? Alternatively, do we prefer to ponder the verb, "to love," and consider what it might mean for society if people really believed in a divinity loving diversity and justice? Of course, there are no easy and simple answers, regardless of whether we consult the Sikh scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an, movies, the Declaration of Human Rights, or the transgender movement, but the effort is worthwhile. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural, and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid thought and simplistic belief systems across the religious spectrum. In our world, in which military unrest and violence, economic inequities, and religious strife prevail, such a conversation nurtures theological, ethical, and political possibilities of inclusion and justice. Book jacket.

Subject

• Religion and justice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: from progressive theological discourse to changing the world / Susanne Scholz -- Pt. I: About God -- God is diversity and justice: a feminist Sikh perspective / Nikky-Guninder Karu Singh -- As long as you are doing something: a secular feminist perspective from Canada / Pamela Milne -- I AM, who loves the prophets, loves you: meditations on the progressive/prophetic at the end of Jewish history / Marc H. Ellis -- Pt. II: About love -- A world without tags: a progressive Palestinian Muslim scholar speaks / Isam Shihada -- Class matters in an age of empire: a white feminist working-class American speaks / Susanne Johnson -- Pt. III: About Diversity -- Celebrating diversity is not what it's all about: a progressive white male German American theologian speaks / Joerg Rieger -- Does God really love diversity?: a Chinese American New Testament scholar speaks / Sze-kar Wan -- Pt. IV: About justice -- Diversity, justice, and the Bible for grown-ups: a Jewish Russian-Israeli-American Hebrew Bible scholar speaks / Serge -- The exiled native: the paradox of the black scholar / Maria Dixon -- Justice is at the core: law, justice, and gender equality in Islamic feminism / Qudsia Mirze -- Transgender spirituality: find justice through activism and love / Gordene MacKenzie and Nancy Nangeroni -- Pt. V: Two responses -- Reflection on "God loves diversity and justice": a (modern) human rights perspective / Patricia H. Davis -- Should God remain?: a response from the perspective of peace and conflict studies / Victoria Fontan.

ISBN

• 9780739173183 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739173189 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739173190 (electronic)
• 0739173197 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2013005254

OCLC

• 837922127
• SCSB-12268584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library