Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism : Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives

This text argues that engaging black feminist and womanist religious perspectives with Jewish and Christian discourses offers more robust religious critiques of alienating modes generated and exacerbated by a neoliberal economy. Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism offers compelling and intersectional religious critiques of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the normative rationality of contemporary global capitalism that orders people to live by the generalized principle of competition in all social spheres of life. Keri Day asserts that neoliberalism and its moral orientations consequently breed radical distrust, lovelessness, disconnection, and alienation within society. She argues that engaging black feminist and womanist religious perspectives with Jewish and Christian discourses offers more robust critiques of a neoliberal economy. Employing womanist and black feminist religious perspectives, this book provides six theoretical, theologically constructive arguments to challenge the moral fragmentation associated with global markets. It strives to envision a pragmatic politics of hope. Cover 1 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction Neoliberalism and the Religious Imagination 16 1 The Myth of Progress 33 2 Resisting the Acquiring Mode 61 3 Loss of the Erotic 91 4 Love as a Concrete Revolutionary Practice 119 5 Hope as Social Practice 144 Conclusion 173 Notes 199 Bibliography 213 Index 219 Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-17 The Myth of Progress....Pages 19-46 Resisting the Acquiring Mode....Pages 47-76 Loss of the Erotic....Pages 77-104 Love as a Concrete Revolutionary Practice....Pages 105-129 Hope as Social Practice....Pages 131-159 Conclusion....Pages 161-186 Back Matter....Pages 187-213