Economics of Faith

ISBN-13: 9780197751206 / Angielski

Chung-Kim

Recenzje

There are three particularly distinctive achievements in this illuminating book. First: while necessarily selective, it also has refreshingly panoramic dimensions. Second: it retrieves authentically the Reformation era's natural integration of religious faith, theology, service and witness, community solidarity, ethical use of material resources, social welfare, and the public good. Third: the architecture of the book is pleasing; it is not just static, since the major attention devoted to paradigms of migrant and exilic religious groups with their fragility and vulnerability helps animate the investigation and gives it a modern resonance.

O autorze

Esther Chung-Kim is Chair and Professor of the Religious Studies Department at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. She currently serves as the President-Elect of the American Society of Church History and was previously appointed as the Associate Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. She teaches courses on the History of World Christianity, including the European Reformations, Poverty and Religion, and Christianity and Politics in Asia. Her publications focus on religious conflict, history of biblical interpretation, and charity and poor relief.