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| Resource: | Books (620.0400) An Other Kingdom : Departing the Consumer Culture |
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| Author: | Block, Peter | |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2016 | |
| Length: | 144 pages | |
| Heading: | 035 — Christian Life | |
| Subjects: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. / bisacsh; Christian Life - Character & Values ; Community development; Community life; Neighborliness; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. / bisacsh | |
| Location: | HM711 .B58 2016 | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781119194729 | |
| Description: | Includes index. "Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisitionare producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that come swith the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture. We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up. There is no such thing as customer satisfaction. We need a new narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking. An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together.This satisfying way depends upon a neighborly covenant--an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The neighborly covenant has a different language than market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue. Authors Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight invite you on a journey of departurefrom our consumer market culture, with its constellations of empire and control. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable--a culture in which the social order produces enough for all.They ask you to consider this other kingdom. To participate in this modern exodus towards a modern community. To awaken its beginnings are all aroundus. An Other Kingdom outlines this journey to construct a future outside the systems world of solutions"-- "The Other Kingdom is about reframing how society views its communalidentity. The book proposes to identify what has been considered sacred language and use it as an opening into the experience of community and the commons. It lays out a faith narrative without the negative traces of sectarianism. Readers are dared to imagine the human benefit of an alternative to the market ideology that defines our culture, called the Neighborly Covenant because it enlivens and humanizes the social order. The Other Kingdom proposes language for alternative ways to a covenantal culture, one that is active beyond election years and has different substance in defining society's communal identity"-- Contents: Signs of the Times Introduction: Context Is Decisive--The Landscape of the Market World, Enclosure, Covenantal versus Contractual Order, The Neighborly Covenant Chapter 1. The Free Market Consumer Ideology-- Scarcity, Certainty and Perfection, Privatization, The Institutional Assumptions: Better Management/Technology Is the Fix, Interpersonal Is a Problem, Competition Trumps Trust, Toward a Neighborly Culture, A Culture Based on Covenant Chapter 2. Neighborly Beliefs--Abundance, Mystery: Mystery at Work, A Place for God, Holiness, Wilderness, Fallibility, Failing to Be God, Grief, The Common Good Chapter 3. Enough Is Enough: Limitsof the Market Ideology--The Consumer Market Disciplines, Surplus, Predictability and Control, Speed and Convenience, The Blanket of Technology, The Sale of Convenience, Convenience Displaces Capacity, Digital Solutions, The Meaning of Money, Money and the Machine, Wishing for Safety, Believing in Growth, Competition and Class, Class by Design, Class Warfare and the Distribution of Wealth, The Myth of Individualism Chapter 4. Tentacles of Empire-- The Corporatization of Schools, No View from the Top, End of Aliveness, Mobility and Isolation, Un-Productive Wealth, Violence, Illusion of Reform Chapter 5. The Common Good Is the New Frontier-- The Neighborly Covenant, The Commons, An Alternative Social Order, Resisting the Empire, Off-Market Possibilities, The Neighborly Way, The Alternative to Restless Productivity,The Shadow Side of Community Chapter 6. The Disciplines of Neighborliness--Time, A Time for All Things, Time Is the Devil, Standing in Line, Kairos, Food, Food and Sacred Re-Performance, The Local Food Movement, Food and Culture, Silence, Listening, Quakers and Time and Listening, Sacraments of Silence, Covenant: A Vow of Freedom and Faithfulness, Covenant and Retributive Justice, The Right Use of Money, Money and Our Affection for Place, A Liturgy for the Common Good, Prophetic Possibilities, Story as Liturgy and Re-performance, The Re-Performing Power of Liturgy Postscript: Beyond Money and Consumption--Timing Is Everything, Signs of Change Commentaries References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Index About the Authors . |
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